Chad's not gonna clean house because we're almost at 7000 users. This looks good for the GB community. However, when less than half of those support anything to do with the community, I'm sure companies take notice.

Its not that big of a deal. Unless somehow members who don't post at all or hardly post costs Chad money. As long as YOU post and are active, what does it matter if people sign up and don't participate here?

Just my 2 cents.

may be have more busee lives then use
or some of need to stare doing more logines

I think the main reason I started the thread is that its just discouraging to see somebody register and never come back. It would be better, in my opinion, to have 1000 real participating members, than those other 5000 blank files.

Not only is Roshanger right, but c'mon people. We KNOW that there are not 6,957 users on this site. If it were true, you'd instantly get that many sigs on a gb petition.

The only thing you can do, if you're dissappointed that people sign up and then leave, is to do your very best to draw them into the community. If they signed up and never came back, it's because they didn't find anything of interest here.

As for deleting them, I'm with Chad on this one. My commitment to the board is related to my work - there have been strings of months where I've barely had a chance to look at the board.

Better to keep 9 accounts that will never return, just so you don't delete that 10th account that will one day return and wonder why they can't get in any more.

Actually, castewar makes a good point. I just think that maybe we should have an “active users” list, for people who have been on the board in the last 30 days, rather than delete the accounts.

Honestly, try and look at it from a marketing perspective. I'll use the infamous Red Ketchup as an example, even though he's probably well educated on the current board status, ongoings, etc.

Red is looking for an established, yet dormant, franchise to start his comic company with. He finds a dedicated network (GBN) with 7,031 registered users. These are only the dedicated, registered users, not including casual fans who look at the board but haven't registered. Now Red sees that Ghostbusters is a viable licensce, and plans one product, with, oh let's say seven follow-ups if the first is successful. However, Red's expectations are instantly skewed by the boards claim of 7,031 users, who, in reality, are probably at least 5% dual accounts (more like 10%) as well as people who signed up once to post a quick message (possibly in the miscellaneous forum and had nothing to do with Ghostbusters), and as such, product one is deemed a failure and products two through eight are never released. Red is left with a stockpile of inventory, and severs his contract with Sony.

i mean if your not going to post then you are just wasting your own time registering and everyone elses by not sharing your views!

Ah, but there is a reason to log in and not post–watching the RGB and EGB streaming eps. If you don't post, then you shouldn't be allowed to watch the eps. And if you do post, then it should be frequently. It's totally cheap coming on here only to watch the shows.

Wel all i can say is that the very first day i joined Ghostbusters.net i had an email from the webmaster himself chad as i think you all did, and it stated that you may be removed from the site if you dont post.