Happy Birthday, RCC!

On Aug 23, 12:42 pm, "mazorj" wrote:
FWIW, to gauge the current participation, in April I did an analysis of
thousands of rcc posts. ...

Ever the economist. Always measuring.

... as of 4/18/09: ... more than 5,000 posts on rcc in 2009.
I ended up with 92 names.

From: Jerry Dennis
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
I ran the 1933 Saint Pool. We had to guess how much the Farouk Saint
would sell for. As I recall we had over 120 entries; a lot of
regulars and a few lurkers.
It was estimated that RCC had over 300 active participants and over
1,000 lurkers at one time.

Many reasons come into play, of course. The lawsuit was one, but not
that much. Most of the people involved posted under their own names
or otherwise openly. Afterwards, some merely went to nomes de
guerre. The rise of message boards is another factor. Many came here
via AOL and CompuServe. (In fact, I think that at the 1992 Detroit
ANA, the "online" club meeting was announced as a the "CompuServe"
club meeting.) As those other services changed and as Newsgroups were
picked up by the services, AOL readership and authors increased. But
then came the message boards. From CoinPeople and Collectors Universe
then to proobably a dozen today. So, there is more competition and
more communities, rather than one big meeting place.

Also, the novelty wears off for some. People move on. Sometimes they
move back.

Finally, while the numbers are clearly down, we do get the pleasant
surprise, as now, of someone who says that they were an old poster
from way back , but have been lurking all along, and now have
something to say.

Mike M.
Michael E. Marotta
"RCC since 1994"