Happy 10,000 Members, DGrin!

OwenOwen Registered Users Posts: 948 Major grins
edited October 4, 2006 in The Big Picture
Happy 10,000 Members, DGrin! :barb

Quite the landmark... now to get them all chattin'!

Owen

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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited October 2, 2006
    how many of them are real is an ongoing debate among the moderators. You have to admit, its fairly quiet around here for 10,000 people...

    reveal yourselves!
    Erik
    moderator of: The Flea Market [ guidelines ]

  • antriebantrieb Registered Users Posts: 285 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Well I can account for at least 4 of them :uhoh
    Photography runs in my blood :andy

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    antrieb wrote:
    Well I can account for at least 4 of them :uhoh
    rolleyes1.gif
    Andy

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  • BenA2BenA2 Registered Users Posts: 364 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    how many of them are real is an ongoing debate among the moderators. You have to admit, its fairly quiet around here for 10,000 people...

    reveal yourselves!
    From "Shooters" I see there have been roughly 2000 visitors over the last month, so that's some measure. Of course, there were a lot of zero posts in that list. It seems like you could get a better feel, though, if vBulletin tracked "date of last post" by member. Or, maybe that's a stat available to mods only.

    Either way, I think this site has a ton of lurkers, both member and non-member. I was one for several months before my first post. And, by some measures (posts since membership), it could be argued I still am.:D

    My point? I hope everyone sees the incredible value of this forum to the droves of folks who've not come out of the Dgrin closet. It can take a lot of time for a noobie to get up the nerve to post with all this experience around. Fortunately, this site does a better job than any other of making them feel welcome when they do.
    Ben

         www.ackersphotography.com
  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2006
    I found dgrin when I joined smugmug and have dove right in. I bought my first DSLR a couple weeks before I joined here and have honestly learned at least 50% of what I know from here. The rest was from trial and error, reading books, and meeting other photographers through dgrin. I started with the questions of "Which lens to use" and I posted what I thought at the time were fantastic shots but now I know betterrolleyes1.gif. My point is that I have always been encouraged here and because of that I think the quality of my shots have gone up exponentially. There are a lot of lurkers around here and I would bet that 75% of the posts are from less than 20% of the members. The top 10 posters make up 23% of the posts and Andy makes up 6% of all the posts by himself. Imagine how busy this board would be if all 10,000+ members posted even once a month.
    Nick
    SmugMug Technical Account Manager
    Travel = good. Woo, shooting!
    nickwphoto
  • jsedlakjsedlak Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2006
    antrieb wrote:
    Well I can account for at least 4 of them :uhoh

    Silly Zac. I am one of those 4!
    jsedlak.smugmug.com
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