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Feb 26, 2006, 2:25am

OK.... I think, but am not 100% sure, why you are not posting. There are
literally thousands of people reading these posts. I'm certain of it. :)
Only AWI could verify it... and I dare them to. :) But... the reply ratio
isn't quite what we'd hope for. Part because there are a lot of tourists who
are scared of the 6.95 per month.... which... in my opinion is a steal.
But.... for the rest... I think Mark has scared them off... :P~~ or Mark
wannabe's... and franky I think these folks need to get over it and post
whatever their hearts desire. Join the community... we know you're there...
just let your voice be heard and don't let any Mark fakes or originals scare
you! We have a support group for you! I'm a AWholic.... and I don't want to
be cured!

Become an AWholic! It will fill your 3D hearts desire! You're loved...

Feb 26, 2006, 2:30am

[View Quote] Thousands of people? Probably not. :P

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- DeltaPHC
Cit 355508

http://delta.digibase.ca

Feb 26, 2006, 2:46am

oh come on :) In a population of millions? Be more optomistic than that? I
had over 100 seperate tourist hits on my server in Steel today.... I
mean.... I see some numbers here that differ with the common opinion. I'm
looking at IP address' here too. :) It would be way cool if those people who
visited today became citizens. I don't know their ages or their incomes...
but they are all paying 19.95 a month minimum for their access to the
internet... and to some of them maybe 6.95 more seems like a lot for what
they get... but I don't think they truly understand what they get for their
dollar. They get to join a community, they get their own name, they get
instant messaging, they get the ability to express themselves in hundreds of
worlds... to creat their hearts desires... to vent their creativity to
thousands of other people and the potential to own their own world... to
create their fantasy... their own vision of what a world could be...

There are some folks here being negative. I don't understand that point of
view. AW is so much dang fun.

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Feb 26, 2006, 3:19am

I'm not being negative. I'm just being realistic.

Whenever I'm in AW, I usually only see around 100-500 people inworld
according to the Worlds list. And I think only a small fraction of them
actually read the newsgroups, if they can at all.

Also... a population of millions? I don't think so. AW's total
population (that are actually active) is probably somewhere in the
thousands. I don't know for sure, but I find it unlikely that AW ever
had millions of users. That'd be a bit difficult to achieve for what AW is.

You should look at Second Life (or just visit secondlife.com and look at
the numbers). They have a population of nearly 150,000 and inworld users
are anywhere from 2,500 to almost 6,000. AW isn't even close.

But I like AW anyways, mostly because I'm free to build until I run out
of creativity/inspiration, rather than out of money.

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- DeltaPHC
Cit 355508

http://delta.digibase.ca

Feb 26, 2006, 4:05am

I'm sorry Deltaphc, I did not mean to imply that activeworlds.com had
millions of users, but had the potential for millions of users via the
internet connection that AW has.

We, as AWholics are not voicing our love for AW enough. I don't consider our
addiction to be a bad thing at all.

Our addiction to World of Warcraft, or Everquest I/II, or Dark Age of
Camelot... etc... well... that's just nasty... and I believe that because as
users of those programs we contribute nothing but being oneupsmans... which
if you think about is pretty wasteful of our time and lives.

In AW... our time building has the potential to last for a lifetime... or
longer. Depending on the world. We can elect to license a world... and keep
it for a hundred years... or longer... and our virtual legacy will last that
long or longer. In some cases whether we pay for our membership or
not.(building in Alpha for example). But if you build in SL... and lapse on
paying your account, you could loose your property and builds and people
could take over your land and delete it at will. Assuming I understand their
policy, please correct me if I am wrong.

Feb 26, 2006, 7:25am

If your really looking for something to read, look at the SR forums
(forum.swcity.net) as well. There's an AW board there. Average posts per day
for the whole forum is 59 ;D

- Com

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Feb 26, 2006, 7:51am

Well shoot, you're stealing our traffic. ;)

j/k

Feb 26, 2006, 8:00am

huh... you know, I'm not kidding. After thinking about it, php authors have
made it too easy for all of us to have our own personal forums on our own
personal websites. Instead of uniting our communities, we have only
succeeded in dividing them into smaller chunks... and for all I know, many
valuable replies, resources and the like are being handled/handed out in
remotes areas of the net that would be more useful when found at a central
location.

Thank you Comit for pointing this out.

Feb 26, 2006, 11:06am

They're not posting because they're too busy participating in said
community. The newsgroups aren't the community, AW is. So stop reading,
and get out there and *do* something! :)

The only thing the newsgroups has ever been good for are whining and
pointless debating, and I think most of the people in AW just got sick
of it and stopped coming. And this isn't a recent phenomenon, as the NGs
have been around for years. AW is where it's at!

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Goober King
Speed reading
http://www.gkstudios.net

Feb 26, 2006, 12:57pm

u r right about the pointless debating and whining but I have recieved a lot
of help with technical problems here.
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Feb 26, 2006, 1:48pm

Thank you Mr. King for that very reasonable explaination. I hadn't thought
of it in quite that way. Now I'll go shut up and do something. ;)

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Feb 26, 2006, 2:08pm

I like how i glance at the title of this 1-day old topic, expand it and
watch it explode with many replies
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Feb 26, 2006, 2:20pm

"Part because there are a lot of tourists who are scared of the 6.95 per
month.... "

Ummmmmmmmmm ..............
Tourists can't post on here. : )

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Feb 26, 2006, 3:54pm

exactly :)
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Feb 26, 2006, 5:18pm

Well as far as I know the SR forums are the only real active AW related
forums out there. Your right that its easy for anyone to set up personal
forums, cause there's a ton. But uhhh they only get a post once in a great
while from what I've seen heh.

Your right that it's split, but its rightfully split IMO. A lot of folks
don't wanna deal with some of the nonsense going on around the NGs; plus
forum software is superior to NG software - forums are feature rich, NGs
have almost nothing ;D

Though the original intent was to post city community-specific posts there,
but eventually it grew and grew and we had to open an AW discussion board to
help sort it all out.

- Com

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Feb 26, 2006, 6:42pm

Ah, my thoughts exactly! :D

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Feb 28, 2006, 10:15am

Those who don't post often, usually have very little to post about.

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Mar 3, 2006, 4:54pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] My excuse as of late has been being too busy with other things - like
*actually building a city infrastructure* for Hamsterville (still
working on the placement and formation of streets east of Retsmah Road
East).

But since I'm now at a `crossroads' (no pun intended), I'll now check
out the General AW board on SWCity.net (I may even start my own board
on the Hamsterville website).

Cheers :)

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PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))
http://hamsterville.tripod.com/
HAMSTERVILLE GROUND ZERO - AW 5029N 500E
SKYPE ME at patspodcast

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