<p>I am fairly new here, but I’m not new to discussion forums. On one that I’ve frequented since 2003, I’ve posted 2932 times, or 1.27 posts per day. And I get grief from some of the members when I see them in person about how often I’m on that forum… So far, I’m at .083 posts/day here and I would have guessed it was less than the other board I have enjoyed for the past 7 years.</p>
<p>So, just to get a “feel” for the level of participation by some here, I browsed some stat’s. To my amazement, several members have over 6,000 posts in less than 5 years, and one has 6,400 posts since last September! How is that even possible? That’s over 54 posts/day.</p>
<p>Just wondering what folks think about this level of participation/use. I just find it amazing. Not good or bad necessarily, but rather, amazing.</p>
<p>I don’t know if that poster was a kid or adult, but I think kids post a lot of terse messges. Often when they are supposedly in school, which I don’t get.</p>
<p>Also, a lot of posts on here can be “Congratulations so and so,” or “Thank you so and so” and there can be many at one time.</p>
<p>THen of course there are the controversial threads and arguments.</p>
<p>I seem to have built up posts faster here than in other forums I participate in, I’m not sure why.</p>
<p>John.- Your post count is not reflective of ALL your posts, since it does not include posts made in the Parents Cafe or the Political Forum. </p>
<p>Yes, there are some prolific posters here and many that have hung around for a lot of years to pass on information and share in the community. It’s fun to “see” old-timers.</p>
<p>Most of us have far higher post counts than our tally to the left reflect. Personally, I never even notice mine. I think I might notice if I start to get near the 10k mark.</p>
<p>PS- I have had many more than 6,000 since I’ve been here. I am well on track to having an official 6,000 within 5 years.</p>
<p>You might notice the low post total I have, and yet you see me around giving my more or less distinctive opinion. Even though I’m a college parent, I don’t post on my kids’s college areas much any more, for the simple reason that my kids don’t want me to. So I check what’s happening over at their college threads and I get sucked in to the Parent Cafe, and by some uncanny warp in the space-time continuum, before I know it a chunk of my day is missing with nothing to account for it! It’s incredible! It’s as if the minutes just bleed out my fingers as I type!</p>
<p>On a Disney board I read, some posters have 35,000 posts, and some have 50,000 or more. On CC, I’ve noticed that some of the folks with the highest post counts actually have the most helpful, worthwhile info to share (Northstarmom, marite, sybbie719, and soozievt - all with 10K-plus posts - come immediately to mind, and there are a number of others). As to what I think about the level of participation/use - well, I’m reading here, aren’t I? I’m grateful to the high-volume posters for providing me so much to think/commiserate/laugh about.</p>
<p>I visit this site daily. I don’t always post, but I’m here everyday. I come here while eating lunch at my desk, and when I have a lull in the day. I find that it really is a stress buster for me because it takes me completely away from what I am doing, mentally. Also, I may be working on other projects or perusing other sites but I always check in to see anything new on my subscribed threads. Yes, I too started out when my D was waiting for her acceptances to come in, but I have become hooked. I love the Parent’s Cafe, and I still post on the College threads if i can answer a question. I use to post on the political threads, but that got so NASTY during the pre-election time that I no longer even look.</p>
<p>^^ me three… I love the bit of contact with other parents of teens and seeing how much people care about their kids. It’s a very nice break from the day.</p>
<p>What I think about this level of participation is why should I care? Some people post a little; some people post a lot. All are welcome in my book.</p>
<p>^I think it is awesome. Those numbers mean you have wisdom, advice for the college threads, because anything you post in the Cafe does not count. Some people post just little bits and that drives the numbers up. I’m anxious now to get to 1000 post.</p>
<p>Those are good points, but has anyone else had their kids say that they don’t want you posting things about them on CC or any other place on the internet? I will sometimes post something fairly general (for instance, no “stats”), but kids have a right to their privacy and I respect that.</p>
<p>Those of you with thousands of posts must have said quite a lot on your kids’s college pages – do your kids not care? I am genuinely curious about that (not intending to provoke or anything).</p>
<p>My kids care either very little or not at all. They have never complained or even commented. I know they have read a few things I’ve posted about them over the years. But it’s a non-issue. CC is my thing and not theirs. Now if I were to somehow embarrass them on Facebook, <em>that</em> would be a different matter.</p>
<p>A lot of what we post on CC has nothing or little to do with our kids. Many posts are very general, especially on the Cafe. Why should my kids care if I post in the Diet and Exercise thread or about clothes? I have shared enough information for my kids to be identified if someone really wanted to search, but nothing that isn’t already out there otherwise. The fact is, in this day and age of facebook, google etc., there isn’t much privacy left for anyone!</p>