Big site, but 80/20 still applies

The earlier posting 'Big Site, Small Forum Activity hits the nail
on the head. Though I did not create an Excel spreadsheet for
data, a quick perusal of the Forum author's names proves that the
same crew does most of the work. The only question might be
the actual number of active members on the site 'True
Nudist' and does their participation rate
equal other similar sites?

I looked up the old rule of thumb 80/20 to find out what it
said. You can find a ton of articles on that topic and review
what the varied experts and authors have to say. I've
included a quick reference here from a web article,
'www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/397/80-20-rule-pareto-principle' to
show that we may be just in the 'norm'.

"By the numbers it means that 80 percent of your outcomes come from
20 percent of your inputs. As Pareto demonstrated with his research
this rule holds true, in a very rough sense, to an 80/20 ratio,
however in many cases the ratio can be a lot higher, 99/1 may be
closer to reality. "

Basically, you can infer that a less than 20% of a group puts forth
more than 80% of the output or results. In the early days of
the nudist movement, there was a lot more interest, more involved
people and greater participation. As it became more
mainstream and not as new, the participation started to decline and
the devout became more apparent. Just look at the number of
folks in Chat actually conversing versus the number watching.
I hope I've made my point.

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