OK lets try to address a few of these points, if we can,
1. The fact that there is only a few posters in relation to the membership is a problem, or a condition that seems to affect most sites. Even the huge sites such as Accurate Reloading, although the number of posters looks to be a lot in terms of the membership the percentage is low. It appears to be the nature of the beast. If you look at the bottom of the page you can see how many people are visiting the site. The members names alone far exceed the number of regular posters, many members log in, but post rarely. Plus there are always guests on the site. That's OK if they visit and are happy, what more could you ask for.
2. "lets hope that the buyers of the site will not sell out to commercialism regardless of number of active posters or number of hits" I can tell you this we w ill be looking for advertisers, there is a cost implication here and it has to be met, preferably not out of our pockets. So if anybody would like to advertise, we will be cheaper than glossy magazines.
3. "this specific thread, my comments included!, should be binned." Well, we are not going to bin this thread, you, the members, have said it so you must think it is worthy of comment. If you feel that it should not be there, that is up to you to edit your own posts accordingly, but we wont. Nothing has been said that could be described as abusive, libelous, unworthy etc, etc, so as far as we are concerned the thread stays. By we I mean Malcolm and I, he is busy doing something very unpleasant to a white fox at the moment!
4. The figures thing, well its statistics and everybody can make them do all sorts of tricks. I can tell you this which I hope are statistics that are pretty much "unbendable". There have been 314588 page views, there has been 17696 visits to the site, 3280 of these being absolute unique visitors, this is from 19/6/08 to 19/708.
I don't profess to understand statistic but, they do not appear to be too shabby to me.
John
I got interrupted mid post and when I finished this Malc had already been on, never mind you now have it in stereo.