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Originally posted by Carl Childress
Your guess would be wrong. A miniscule percentage of our subscribers post to The Forum or eTeamz, the only Boards we track.
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The right number to compare with subscribers, though, is non-posting readers of the Forum. It's a harder number to track than posters, but you can track monthly unique users. I suspect that it's considerably more than the number of posters.
In my own case, I read the forums for many months before subscribing, and only then did I post anything. I wouldn't be surprised if most subscriberes are acquired through the Forum, and that many "lurk" there for some time before subscribing.
I'll agree with Carl on this point. The structure of the article archive usually makes it clear when articles are controversial, especially when the editor can arrange a point-counterpoint in articles. (Carl sometimes does a better job within an article to warn the naive user.)
-LL