When I first posted on this site, there were, I think, around 300 registered users. Now the number of registered users is about to reach 1000 in the very near future. Over on H20 the numbers have decreased, but the Community owner, Rick, appears to be mesmerised by the idea that it is still much bigger, and biggest is best, as this excerpt from a recent post shows:
“By the way, ****, I understand that Jehovahs-Witnesses.com, started January 24, 2000 (just over a year ago) has an address in Great Britain with brother Green listed at Network Solutions in the public Whois database as its owner (and an ISP in Florida, USA)? Do this little math exercise: take the 5,735 postings on H2O between February 7, 2001 and March 16, 2001 (or 37 days). Calculate the number of postings per day, and multiply this number times the number of days in a year to estimate the number of postings this site will yield in a year. (Hint: the answer is a number a little less than half of the 320,000 postings on H2O last year.) We're still overwhelmed by the number of posts, even if the number is half of last year's number!”
One of the reasons that I decided to limit my posts on H20 was because of its sheer size. This meant that good posts were often buried under a pile of nonsense of the “Yes you did, no I didn`t” variety, or the “You are a liar, no it`s you who is lying” kind of stuff.
Sometimes, there would be 10 to 20 exchanges of tiresome personal insults between just 2 posters. I once found myself feuding with one person who seemed keen to press all my buttons - over the Falklands war of all things - only when I contacted the person in live chat did I find that I was dealing with a nomally pleasant guy. Maybe we were both playing to the audience!
So far, this board has only got a few trolls. Maybe every board needs a couple to keep us on our toes. I just hope fervently that JW Discussions superior topic format keeps the `H20 sniping syndrome` from rearing it`s ugly head here. It`s a great discussion site, lets keep it that way!
Englishman