I BELIEVE, (because I asked the same question a month ago) there are 160,000 freepers (the poster who answered me said he had asked Jim Robinson and was told that), and there are 15,000 Dem. Underground people. But this was then, I'm sure its more now.
If I am wrong, please somebody correct me.
I'm pretty sure that at least half of the 15,000 DUers are conservative trolls posing as nutball lefties to discredit their site. Or I could be wrong and they really are that crazy.
I lurk at DU often. They claim 52,463 user registrations since January 2001.
I don't doubt this number. I suspect however, greater than 30,000 have been tombstoned, if not over 40,000.
I know at least 50 names tombstoned are mine!
I have also repeatedly seen threads on DU asking how many registered users there are and the reply from the mods and Skinner (the owner) has been that that information is private.
I wonder how many non-tombstoned users they have that have posted at least once in the past month. I would like to see that number for FreeRepublic as well.