7000+ members? Why does this seem wrong? Interesting Stats on posts/members

Questions:
1) The front page of the forum says there are 7,357 members at the time of posting. Why does the 'members' section say there are only 694 pages of 10 members when 'top 10 posters' is selected?

I calculated 6,939 members. (10 on each page with 9 on the last: (694-1)x10+9).My only answer to this may be that the front page doesn't decrease it's count when users delete accounts/get banned.

2) There are 6,939 to 7,357 users here. Why have only 30.05% of the users made at least one post?


Some stats:
(based on the reported number of users on the front page)
2211 users have posted
30.05% of users have made at least one post

816 member have made more than 5 posts
11.09% of users have made more than 5 posts

562 users have posted more than 10 posts.
07.64% of users have made more than 10 posts

197 users have posted at least 50 posts
02.68% of users have made than 50 posts

(percentages will be roughly 0.5-1% higher if using the figure of 6,939 users)

A comment was made that users may possibly end up with the same avatar due to the 6,939 to 7,357 members; however, please realize that less than 200 users actually currently qualify for customized avatars. Also note that this figure will rise with time.

Thank you for your time.

You know, I noticed the same thing a few days ago... while trying to see what page I was on.

It seems like so many people just join and never come back. There are pages and pages of people who have joined, but never posted anything. I know that this is going to sound a bit unfair, but I was thinking that for people who don't post, and they have been a member for a certain time length, they should be deleated or something. To many people don't even bother to follow up on their membership... so consequently there are like pages of unparticipating members who don't contribute to this site whatsoever. Don't get me wrong, the more members, the better... but this is just ridiculous!!:(

I hear you.

In addition to my math above, may I add that the top 220 posters, which is the top 3% of posters have made 74.03% of all posts. Almost 3/4 of all posts were made by 3%, or only 220 people.

That is so dumb... I can't stand it!!

I wish more people would post... or not become members if they don't... such a waste of space... 600+ pages of people who don't even come back to right anything!!:(

it may be a known issue by the admins, but no one really wants to say we had 7000+ members, but then we realized almost 70% of them have never posted a day in their lives, so we deleted them. Now we're down to 2211 users.

Too many registered without a single post. I went through the exact stats myself when I was tracking av theives. Ridiculous number of members who never posted since May this year.


UT