Just as a thought: quantity of posts on the two private lists I
subscribe to are down. Both used to average 10+ posts a day. Both now
average half or less of that.
Quantity of posts to unblock-en-L is down significantly. It's down to
3 or 4 posts a day with some exceptions but rarely exceeding 10. I
remember some days in the past it was upwards of 20 or 30.
Interestingly enough, my posting level on this list is also quite a
bit down, though I still read every email, it's mainly due to the
topic matter of the past 2 months or so not being my cup of tea the
way it has been in prior months.
-Dan
On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Nathan wrote:
This is perhaps simplistic and applies mostly to this
particular
list, but
volume has been actively discouraged in various ways over the last
year or
more by complaints and discussions on ways to decrease volume. Most
often
cited reason for complaining about posts was the quality of posts
made by
high volume posters - many who complained about that phenomena also
mentioned that they were unsubscribing, or no longer actively
reading the
list as a result.
The point is that not all declines result from decreased interest or
reflect
a general decline in participation. As others have pointed out,
traffic
moves between lists - and more and more often, from public to
private lists
and other private forms of communication. One other interesting
tidbit,
though, is that conversation on IRC channels in English seems to have
declined significantly as well. No idea how you could find or parse
statistics for that.
Nathan
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