Michelle, on what are you basing your comments re posting volume?
As in the following:
If the new SI were truly a fiasco there would be some indicators of such...fewer posts, etc. The only place where I'm noticing fewer posts is on the complainer...err..SI beta site launch thread.
Your point about over-all posting volume is an important one, and Craig Richards has already addressed it. The point about volume on this thread is totally insignificant, but still, it is easy enough to check out. So I went back a few weeks, and counted posting volume each day. This is what I came up with (do not guarantee 100% accuracy):
Average volume, 7/1-7/16: 38 daily
7/17: 43
7/18: 58
7/19: 55
7/20: 24
7/21: 14
7/22: 44
7/23: 22
7/24: 8
7/25: 13
7/26: 32
7/27: 21
7/28: 24
7/29: 42
7/30: 49
7/31: 64
8/1: 57
8/2: 28
8/3: 67
8/4: 69
8/5: 71
8/6: 83
8/7: 59
8/8: 26
8/9: 54
To me, it looks as if posting on this thread has increased, not decreased, since the New SI was officially launched. The high point was in the period 8/3-8/6, with posts clustering around BryanB's responses to our various requests/complaints. If you mean the relative fall-off within the past few days, the average for them is still 46 posts per day, which beats the averages for earlier periods.
None of this matters, of course. My only reason for bringing it up is in order to demonstrate that when you make statements like "most SI members think..." or "the majority are complacent", etc., you should base them on something more than your own perceptions. Because perceptions are tricky -- they can trick you into seeing things that aren't there.
Joan
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