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"Might make you think differently"

Okay, I want to know something. How many of you on here just read posts rather than writing your own? I mean sure, everyone pops on and just reads for a bit, but does anyone actually come on JUST to read other people's posts? I don't believe that people come on just to post their own stuff. I reckon a lot of the time, there's at least 50% more people reading the site than there is posting on it.

So, I want the ratio you spend reading the site, and the ratio you spend posting. Mine's about 70/30 in favour of reading.

And yes, I am very bored and can't sleep due to wanting to see Matrix Reloaded. *watches trailer again*

I've never posted with the intention of winning a GAD, so my ratio sort of stays the same.

I post in spates, so it goes from 50-50, to 90-10(Reading-Typing).

I'm sure most people have at least 90/10 in favour of reading, because who posts almost every other post? no one, because we avoid spamming.

Mine is very low, because the more i post the more people dislike me.

It might be like 98/2 or something.

I probably have a ratio of something like 70/30, in favour of reading posts, rather than writing them - now.

As you'll probably know, I used to post a lot more when there were 3 GAD competitions - likewise with everyone else.

I just don't really have that kind of "motivation" to vent my opinions anymore, and only really post topics now to alert people of the latest news, or something short-'n'-simple like that.


If you want more "quality" posting, you know what you'd have to do...! ;D

I can't see anyone posting 50/50. For that, you'd have to post one message for each other post your read. Yes?
To post more than 50/50, you'd have to post things and not read as many replies as you post.

Or am I talking crap?

Got no one to see the matrix :\
Sister have exams, mates have exams its kind of sad just sitting in the cinema on your own watching a quality film

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> So, I want the ratio you spend reading the site, and the ratio you
> spend posting. Mine's about 70/30 in favour of reading.

It varies, I go through phases where I just read and don't post because it's all been said already, so for weeks on end I could be 100% just reading.

Then something exciting happens that has ramifications in all sorts of directions and I go back to sporadic bursts of 50% reading and 50% posting.

Ooh, when's this lightbulb being changed? Sounds like fun. Can I film it?

I didn't write this. I stole it.

And then.....

1 to resuurect the post a year later

5 to whine about someone bringing the post back up

10 to flame the whiners

10 to flame the flamers

I'll post the actual answer shall I? (although yours was probably funnier)

1443


--1 to change the light bulb and to post to the forum that the light bulb has been changed;

--14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently;

--7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs;

--27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs;

--53 to flame the spell checkers;

--41 to correct spelling/grammar flames;

--6 to argue over whether it`s "lightbulb" or "light bulb";

--another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive;

--156 to write to the forum administrator about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this forum;

--26 to sign out and post as JATs;

--74 to bash the JAT posts;

--109 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this exchange to the litebulb forum;

--203 to demand that cross posting to grammar, spelling and illumination forums about changing light bulbs be stopped

--111 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant

--306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty

--27 to post URL`s where one can see examples of different light bulbs

--14 to post that the URL`s were posted incorrectly and the post the corrected URL`s

--3 to post about links they found from the URL`s that are relevant to this forum which makes light bulbs relevant to this forum

--33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers and then add "Me too"

--12 to post to the forum that they are never coming back, because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

--19 to quote the "Me too`s" to say "Me three"

--4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ

--44 to ask what is "FAQ"

--4 to say "didn`t we go through this already a short time ago on Usenet?"

--143 to ask "what`s Usenet?"