Does Fluther gain more members than it loses?

Yes, we gain more than we lose. There are far more members (active and otherwise) now than there were when I joined in ‘08. Just for the record, 75 new members joined in the last 24 hours. How many of them will actually become active members remains to be seen.

@augustlan I hope you are not counting the spammer who was “looking for an honest partner” and went through my profile and found me “interesting and attractive” and wants “to know more about me” so I can email and trade pics at….

Thanks for taking care of it. Had you been available, Anthony W and Chris L might still be employed.

Just for the record, 75 new members joined in the last 24 hours.

Holy shit, really? I guess we do, technically, get more than we lose then, whether new arrivals remain or not.

Wow! I too can’t even imagine that 75 new users would join on one day, and then not say anything. Can we throw them a party or something, a meet and greet if you will. Howzabout doing that down at the pool house next to the mansion?

Must have been a slow day, It seem like I greet/catch about 10–12 if I am here 2 hours of time.

@worriedguy I’d say roughly 15 to 20% of all new members do turn out to be spammers. It’s never ending!

As far as I know, we never lose members, but they just stop participating.

We lose people. Plenty are well missed. [1] [2] [3]

Many are no longer participating, but most (not all) still have accounts here.

On the upside just because an account has been closed doesn’t mean it won’t ever come back. jonsblonde closed her account and then came back. I’m glad she did.

How did someone get by asking about specific posters on the threads you linked @fundevogel? I posted a question in Meta asking about a fellow jelly the other day and it got bounced. I even PMed one of the mods and they didn’t answer. Didn’t even get a nod, or a kiss my grits or nuttin.’ Nada, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, none, no nope, nil, zippo, nothin’, nowt, squat, negative.

Dunno. But those are oldish so maybe they’ve changed the policy regarding such things since then. That might explain why one of them was locked. I was wondering about that.

Edit: Actually the locked one was deleted. I’m not used to this thing where deleted questions are archived. I’m glad they do it, but a lot of times I’m just curious why they were deleted.

@bkcunningham Morpheus: What you must learn is that these rules are no different that the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken. Understand? I know what you feel, at times what questions get kicked and what doesn’t seem to be quite nebulous.

So just getting into the mansion doesn’t unlock all the answers @Hypocrisy_Central. Is that what you are saying?

I haven’t found anything new or revealing getting to the mansion other than finding the place in foreclosure and a bunch of frozen stiff rats in the frizzer, and no, they were not alive. I have had questions kicked because they didn’t have enough info in the titel while others with similar levels of info sailed right through.

Maybe the info in the titel didn’t make sesne. ;)

There are a lot of titles that would not make much sense without the text with it, but that didn’t seem to be the problem.

Rules do change, and since mods have no set schedule, sometimes things get past us that shouldn’t.

Eh, a day in the life yea? :)