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Chris . . .
On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 06:00:38 -0700, "Chris Jones via groups.io" <chrisjones12@...> wrote: FWIW IMHO your "activity rate" of about 10% is not all that bad. I suspect that it is actually better than this groups's (i.e. GMF) with its approximately 3500 members.10% membership participation is indeed a good number. I have a group of 1300 that probably has 50 or so actively participating. Another group of 2200 with no regular participation at all; sometimes a month goes by with no messages posted to the group. That latter group services its purpose though when someone asks a question, which is not often, and springs to life for a few days with people helping the person who posted the question. As you said, in any group, you can't assume that people set to no mail are not participating. Just as people who receive email posts can't be assumed to be participating. I'm not sure where some get the idea that nomail means the member isn't participating and those receiving posts by email are participating, but that isn't the case. Some like to use the website interface to post new messages and read posts online. Perhaps they want to keep their email inbox clean. They may have some other reason for wanting no email. There are some who might be set to nomail for now, and not be a regular participant unless they need to ask for help in a post, at which time they may interact with others while they try to get the help they need. They may even switch to email while they get the help they need, then switch back to nomail. I don't understand why a group owner wants to try to force people to participate unless there's some serious reason to do so that has to do with the group's purpose. In some cases it seems that the group owner who wants to force participation when there's no overriding reason to do so has some control issues. (I can understand there are some situations where group participation might be necessary and mandatory but these would be the exception rather than the rule for most groups.) We need to accept that we will have many lurkers and fewer actively participating. I'd like to see more participation in some of my groups but as long as the group is there and members are willing to help when someone has a problem others can help with, then the group serves a purpose. Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
