thats the way it is on most forums iam on. one forum has 5,000 members and only 165 are active. what i fear is, some of those inactive members only join so they can get quick reference to problems, then leave. thx for checking member stats
I think a lot of people are just looking for information and may not yet be geeky enough to help others. I would not kick those members. I know several people on other forums that started posting one day after they had been following the threads for a long time - just reading. One member once stated that he was on the forum for a whole year reading the posts nearly every day before he made the first post. I find nothing wrong with that.
This is an interesting find, why be part of something but not participate? By the way I don't consider myself to be "geeky", here I show my age, because I am not sure exactly what that means but my wife tells me it is someone who really is into something, so perhpas I can add it to my titles of grumpy and become a grumpy old geek