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Rounded, approximate numbers

Site’s constituency (guesstimated max unique visitors interested at any given time):
19,000
Most unique visitors ever in a given month (Feb 2006):
16,500
Registered users:
3200
Users who have posted something in the forums:
1500
Total forum posts:
20,000
Users who have more than 150+ forum posts:
15
Users who have more than 100-150 forum posts:
15
Users who have more than 25-100 forum posts:
70

That means approximately 2+ % of the site’s registered users do 1/4 of all the talking on the forums.

That means approximately .1% of the site’s constituency have ever talked in the forums (even once).

And these numbers generally reflect what is now well known about socially driven websites - a tiny percentage of the users do a huge percentage of the contribution for little or no pay while the masses simply lurk and do not interact with these people doing all the talking (example: Wikipedia, where fewer than two per cent—are responsible for seventy per cent of the work).

More:
Understanding the 1% and also here.

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