No, the list is updated regularly. It is one of the larger ping lists on FR. . . and I've added members regularly and removed them when they request to be removed or are no longer on FR. You really don't have a clue. I frequently get thanks from members. . . and about 3-5 new members every month. Very few Apple people have gotten banned.
There are only about a dozen of you Anti-Apple Hate brigade members, though. You are the delusional one. Quite a few of them have been banished for mis-behavior on Apple threads in the past.
You can ask dayglored and Thundersleeps how fast their ping lists are growing. . . and I've been managing the Apple List for over 12 years. . . and when I was first asked to do it and agreed, I wound up with over 150 members in less than a week of announcing it. It's been growing steadily ever since. The number of active readers (mostly lurkers) is accurate.
I manage three other ping lists as well, none nearly as large as the Apple ping list. . . but approximately 14% of the computer users in the United States are Apple Mac users. In some states, it is as high as 25% so there is a good reason the Apple special interest group is large. The closest in size is the Shroud of Turin Ping list with more than 250 members.
>> ...if there are 700 people in your ping list, 680 of them must be dead or banned. it's the same 12 to 15 devotees that are hyperactive in your threads . . . over, and over, and over.
Zounds! Dead or banned? I strongly doubt that. Addressed below...
> No, the list is updated regularly. It is one of the larger ping lists on FR. . . and I've added members regularly and removed them when they request to be removed or are no longer on FR. You really don't have a clue. I frequently get thanks from members. . . and about 3-5 new members every month. Very few Apple people have gotten banned... There are only about a dozen of you Anti-Apple Hate brigade members, though. You are the delusional one. Quite a few of them have been banished for misbehavior on Apple threads in the past...
"A dozen", eh? Sounds like we have a team here... Maybe we could assign them appropriate team duties... JohnBrowdie can be in charge of fantasy-'n-fiction, dennisw can be in charge of managing Apple stock shares, that sort of thing.
> You can ask dayglored and Thundersleeps how fast their ping lists are growing. . . and I've been managing the Apple List for over 12 years. . . and when I was first asked to do it and agreed, I wound up with over 150 members in less than a week of announcing it. It's been growing steadily ever since. The number of active readers (mostly lurkers) is accurate.
When I started the Windows ping list, I had about 75 people the first week (in April of this year), and it's now at about 130 after 8 months. In that time people have joined at maybe 1 or 2 per week, and about half a dozen people have dropped off also. I don't know if it'll ever rival the Apple list in size, but we certainly don't lack for excitement. :-)
But the point is that the thing JohnBrowdie mentioned -- that it seemed like there was a relatively small core of people who did most of the commenting -- well, that's true of the Windows list too, and I think it's true of most lists. For every list member who motivates themselves to post a comment, there are 25 or more who just read and enjoy. I don't know the actual ratio, and anyway it varies a lot with the thread topic.
That's all I've got to say; I'm gonna back out crossing myself, and hope all y'all have a good time.