Drafting Yao Ming has given the board quite a boost this off-season. Any guesses how high the membership will rise once the season starts? Will we hit 40,000 threads by October? (Well with Manny around that shouldn't be a problem ) I think we should have a little contest to guess how many members and posts the board will have by the end of the regular season. I'm guessing this board will see an explosion in posts during the season and have 750,000 posts and 10,000 members. Anyone else want to venture a guess? We should have some sort of prize for the winner, maybe Clutch could let the winner change their membership title, or something. B
I guess I should restate that, 750,000 posts total, and 10,000 members total, meaning 250,000 posts and 4,000 new memebers. Time for me to start donating to the tip jar. B
LOL, that's why I said regular season. I like the optimism. Manny, sorry, I just couldn't resist. We registered within a month of each other and you have about 3000 more posts than me. You might just have more threads created than I have posts. B
There aint no doubt there....he had more thread in his first month than I did in my first 2 yrs... but I actually don't mind Manny posts/threads.. (hey, I'm in the minority about that aint I?) j/k Comic book guy.....(hmm...I think I prefer Manny, easier to type)
I'm just messing with you, B. You might know me better than anyone else on the BBS. Looking back at things, all I wanted to do was come here to find out info on the Rockets. I never really intended to register to post on the BBS. But then I was reading about Olajuwon - will he or won't he? I had to register for that. Of course, I couldn't be smooth enough at the time to pick this current handle. So, I went with something cheesy like "Manny Ramirez". But thanks to Clutch, that is all over now. Oh and I never intended to become this posting monster, but it sorta happened.
Internet use in China is growing fast, with the number of people logging on regularly up by more than a third in the first half this year, official figures show. The number of internet users grew by 12 million to 45.8 million during the six months to the end of June, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre. This compares with 7.2 million new internet users in the previous six months, giving a total of 33.7m at the end of last year. China ranks number three in the world, with only the United States and Japan having more internet users, the report said. Wealth gap But internet users are concentrated in a few wealthy cities - 40% of net-surfers are in Beijing, or the coastal commercial centres of Shanghai or Guangdong. Only 1% of China's on-line population lives in western China, an area of six poorer provinces which the central government is targeting for development in the hope of closing the country's growing income gap. China has 16.1 million computers linked to the web, a 61% increase on a year ago, said CINIC. China's authorities have recently cracked down on internet cafes, which the latest figures suggest remains one of the most popular ways of accessing the web. The gap between the number of surfers and the number of PCs online means most people are accessing the internet from colleges, workplaces or internet cafes. Restrictions Nearly half of China's internet users are under 24 years old, the report said. China said last month it would close about 150,000 unlicensed internet cafes nationwide, after 25 people were killed in a fire at one such cafe in Beijing in June. The Ministry of Culture said owners of unlicensed internet cafes would be prosecuted and safety checks stepped up. Internet cafes are massively popular in China and many stay open 24 hours a day, but they have been at the centre of controversies over what young people are reading and whether they spend too much on line. Foreign observers say political content in on-line chat-rooms has also alarmed the authorities, notably after 11 September 2001, when some young people hailed the attack on New York's Twin Towers, recalling the US bombing of China's Belgrade embassy. Spy software There are already restrictions on which foreign websites can be accessed. Beijing also plans to order licensed net cafés to install software which can prevent access to up to 500,000 foreign websites. The software would tell police when surfers try to access illicit pages, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said earlier this month. It said cafes must also register the identity of their customers. From BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2145865.stm
I've been meaning to ask, how hard is it to get Clutch to change one's nym while still keeping one's stats (post count, registration date, etc)? I totally hate this nym..but I don't want to start from scratch...
Actually, I think with vBulletin, it comes default with 'Nicknames', which the user can change at will. Of course, that's not enabled on this board, but I imagine it would be a simple database change (lol, I sound so stupid). Not that I endorse all of you ask for a name change though, since it still takes work. Or was that UBB?
Looking at the current stats of the BBS, I may have put my numbers too low. Clutch, I have a question for you. The highest member number is 8,176 as of the last time I looked it up, but the board says there are 8,089 registered members. Does this mean the board doesn't count banned members? Or is there some other reason to explain the 87 member gap? I know #2 and #3 do not exist. B
Well, looking at the current status of the board, I underestimated the effect of Yao Ming on the board. B
