jttheclockman
Member
Having a down day I decided to check something. It was mentioned in another post about getting a Wow page started that someone brought up a point about viewing SOYP. I never knew it and probably not many here knew it or know it. But if you click on a forum and go to the right side of the page you will see in the header total views and total replies. You click either one and it will show you the most viewed thread or if you click replies it will show you the thread with the most replies and it will list in descending order.
What I had noticed besides reliving some of the great old post and seeing names that I wish were still here, that this site has fallen off drastically in participation. Now we have more members than ever before but things are just not the same. Just from a quick look at a few of the forums, it looks like the years from 2008 -2010 were the most active. It looked like people liked talking more about pens and inventing new ideas and running with old ideas. Now i know there are more forums to read and add comments to but the basic ones were there and always will be there and those are the ones I quickly looked at.
Not a scientific study by no means but maybe something there. Take a look for yourself.
My question or questions are as follows. Is there a lack of interest in pen turning these days??? Is the hobby falling off??? Are people too busy to not participate in the forums any more??? Are the topics so mundane that they draw no interest any more?? Or has pen turning become so commonplace that everyone is doing it and there are no more challenges??? Is there too much info available here now that no need to get pen making conversations going??
If so is there a fix?? What would it take to get more participation here?? What else can be discussed to get back to those long conversations about pen making???
Just some food for thought as you visit the site. Maybe I am seeing something that is not there. (have done that, I believe in aliens)
Have a great day.
What I had noticed besides reliving some of the great old post and seeing names that I wish were still here, that this site has fallen off drastically in participation. Now we have more members than ever before but things are just not the same. Just from a quick look at a few of the forums, it looks like the years from 2008 -2010 were the most active. It looked like people liked talking more about pens and inventing new ideas and running with old ideas. Now i know there are more forums to read and add comments to but the basic ones were there and always will be there and those are the ones I quickly looked at.
Not a scientific study by no means but maybe something there. Take a look for yourself.
My question or questions are as follows. Is there a lack of interest in pen turning these days??? Is the hobby falling off??? Are people too busy to not participate in the forums any more??? Are the topics so mundane that they draw no interest any more?? Or has pen turning become so commonplace that everyone is doing it and there are no more challenges??? Is there too much info available here now that no need to get pen making conversations going??
If so is there a fix?? What would it take to get more participation here?? What else can be discussed to get back to those long conversations about pen making???
Just some food for thought as you visit the site. Maybe I am seeing something that is not there. (have done that, I believe in aliens)
Have a great day.