Where are they now?

[snorkie635]

I noticed that there are now 50,615 Basschatters registered on our little site. Others may know differently, but I got to thinking that there's probably somewhere around 300 'regular' names popping up across a variety of threads - and I feel that's being generous. Where are the other 50,315? Was it something I (or you) said? 🤔

[bass_dinger]

I wondered that too.

 

I discovered that a number of members are on different threads, which I never visit. 

 

So, I never see them because they are in different "rooms".

 

But 50,000? A lot of missing people.

 

 

 

 

[Reggaebass]

I think a lot of people who don’t use it anymore just haven’t deleted their account, so it would still show as 50.615 

[neepheid]

14 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

I noticed that there are now 50,615 Basschatters registered on our little site. Others may know differently, but I got to thinking that there's probably somewhere around 300 'regular' names popping up across a variety of threads - and I feel that's being generous. Where are the other 50,315? Was it something I (or you) said? 🤔

 

Yes, yes it was definitely something you said.

 

 

[snorkie635]

5 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Yes, yes it was definitely something you said.

 

 

It worked! Soon the site will be mine! All mine! 🤪

[snorkie635]

12 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

I wondered that too.

 

I discovered that a number of members are on different threads, which I never visit. 

 

So, I never see them because they are in different "rooms".

 

But 50,000? A lot of missing people.

 

 

 

 

As you say, 'but 50,000'. That's the entire population of a decent sized town. Someone call the BBC! Aliens are abducting bassists for a mega-gig on Jupiter!

[neepheid]

11 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

It worked! Soon the site will be mine! All mine! 🤪

 

You'll have to try way harder than that to get rid of me, damn you!

[BigRedX]

If you venture regularly into the for sale threads you find an entirely different set of users who rarely post on the rest of the site.

[cetera]

Admins - May be time for a clean up? e.g. Delete/Remove anyone who hasn't visited in the the last 2 years?

[TimR]

There can't be 50,000 basplayers in the UK! That's nearly 1 in 1000 people playing bass. 

[neepheid]

3 minutes ago, TimR said:

There can't be 50,000 basplayers in the UK! That's nearly 1 in 1000 people playing bass. 

 

Why would all 50,000 BC members be UK residents?

[TheGreek]

31 minutes ago, cetera said:

Admins - May be time for a clean up? e.g. Delete/Remove anyone who hasn't visited in the the last 2 years?

Agree. 

 

I know a few former bassists who still have active accounts but have given up playing and sold their gear. Unlikely they'll be back. 

I'm fairly sure that several members who passed away in the last few years must also still have active accounts. 

People with duplicate accounts after forgetting their details? I know of a few of them. 

What about would be hackers? What happens to their accounts?

I know that the site owners would like to have others think that there are 50,000 members but I think that (well as long as I've been a member) it's always had a hard-core membership of around 3-400.

[TimR]

10 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Why would all 50,000 BC members be UK residents?

 

I was allowing for 615 overseas members. 

Edited December 12, 2023 by TimR

[TimR]

More of a concern is members that are no longer posting are still in the top 50. 😆

 

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topmembers/?filter=forums_Topic_Post

Edited December 12, 2023 by TimR

[TimR]

2 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Agree. 

 

I know a few former bassists who still have active accounts but have given up playing and sold their gear. Unlikely they'll be back. 

I'm fairly sure that several members who passed away in the last few years must also still have active accounts. 

People with duplicate accounts after forgetting their details? I know of a few of them. 

What about would be hackers? What happens to their accounts?

I know that the site owners would like to have others think that there are 50,000 members but I think that (well as long as I've been a member) it's always had a hard-core membership of around 3-400.

 

I don't know how the database is indexed but think it would probably break the threads if you started deleting members.

 

Maybe mark them as inactive in some way, but don't see what is usefully gained. 

 

[Lozz196]

In the words of Booze & Glory, I Still Carry On

 

 

[asingardenof]

30 minutes ago, TimR said:

More of a concern is members that are no longer posting are still in the top 50. 😆

 

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topmembers/?filter=forums_Topic_Post

 

Including one banned former member!

[neepheid]

1 minute ago, asingardenof said:

 

Including one banned former member!

 

People who talk $hit tend to do it in vast quantities...

[Rich]

Alien abduction.

 

 

Just sayin'.

[BlueMoon]

Probably quite a number of lurkers out there who join but don’t post for some reason. 
 

The disparity between core posters and total numbers does seem large, however.

[Reggaebass]

49 minutes ago, TimR said:

 

I was allowing for 615 overseas members. 

Out of interest how does it show how many are overseas 

[chris_b]

50,000 bass players?

 

That's too many.

 

No wonder I can't get a frigging gig!!!!

[TimR]

1 minute ago, Reggaebass said:

Out of interest how does it show how many are overseas 

 

It doesn't. I was being facetious for comedic effect. 

 

It's a .co.uk based site, you have to make certain assumptions. 

[TimR]

Talkbass seems to have around 330,000 members. The States with a population of 334 million would bear out the same 1 in 1000 people playing bass. 😆

 

Disclaimer, its just for fun and a fag packet sum, please don't expect me to do full analysis on the demographics of each site...

[Supernaut]

2 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

I noticed that there are now 50,615 Basschatters registered on our little site. Others may know differently, but I got to thinking that there's probably somewhere around 300 'regular' names popping up across a variety of threads - and I feel that's being generous. Where are the other 50,315? Was it something I (or you) said? 🤔

Bots or banned!