I find that 20% participate, but under 5% do all the work, more like 2%.
Well then, I think it is time for for you to step up with AOO, if only until someone else steps up to take the reigns. Post about the absentee owner, that yahoo groups is closing, that groups.io can make the transition easy if the owner, assuming he is still alive, can be reached. If not then someone has to jump in and start a similar group. yahoo will stop in about a week allowing new posts so do it today, or say good bye to AOO.
Yes, the admins and mods, along with the active members were interested in keeping it going.
Brent
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On Oct 19, 2019, at 12:24 PM, Bob Beckham via Groups.Io wrote:
That is pretty much true for ALL groups. The general rule of thumb is that 20% of the population will accomplish 80% of the work. That is true of churches, social clubs, political organizations, and probably internet groups.
I originally joined this group to find answers to questions about my new iMac. Mostly operational stuff. Then I kind of lurked awhile, gleaning information by reading ALL the posts. Then I would occasionally comment where I felt I had something useful to add to a discussion.
The traffic on this forum has been somewhat heavy lately as the news of Catalina and the demise of Yahoo coincided.
My other group (Allen Organ Owners) which is on Yahoo, hasn¡¯t mentioned anything about the demise of the Yahoo group. I¡¯ve reached out to several folks, but the group owner has moved on and is the only one able to get to the data needed to transfer to another host. It appears, if that group is to continue, then it will have to start from scratch on another host. It is a relatively small group compared to the Mac forum and just might not survive beyond Yahoo. I¡¯m sure that is probably true for some other Yahoo groups.
I¡¯ve saved many messages from both groups and can email folks from those old posts to see if they are interested in rebuilding the forum.
Said all of that to say this: You are correct in that we are paired down from the supposed 16k members. However, if there are enough members that WANT to be active, they will discuss the issue and solve it. Of course, several folks on MacSupportCentral were interested enough to make it happen. I¡¯m so grateful for that. If other folks are interested enough in the MacSupportCentral forum, they will find us. That is how I found MacSupportCentral to begin with. I did a search of Mac forums and picked this one as a likely culprit. I made a good choice.
Thank you so much to everyone. I feel it a privilege to be here.
On Oct 19, 2019, at 3:04 PM, Brent via Groups.Io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Just my 2 cents, as along time member. I have also been an officer of several clubs, and there are a lot of hanger on-ers, and only a few active members who do all the heavy lifting.
Bob ¡¯The Beckster¡¯ Beckham
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Brent