Celebrating 100,000 GTPlanet Users!

[Philly]

Here is a post from September 20 2006 which was the one year anniversary. The top pic shows the body coming off the truck on September 20, 2005 and the bottom shows the car one year later.

http://kffcobra.blogspot.com/2006/09/one-year-anniversary.html

You should make a thread here.

You would probably get more views and a better discussion going there. Plus, you would be taking up anything form another thread and you could get to know the guys around here a little better.

 

[Troya]

Gtp Rules!!!! We Are So Many!!!!

 

[Matt R]

Thanks for the warm welcome and the Premium membership. I'm still wandering around trying to see everything there is to see in here.

PS3 is my first game console and I bought it a couple months ago just for Gran Turismo and GT4 is still the only game I have for it. I like Indy Car, Grand Am, IMSA (especially ALMS) and Formula 1. The Indy Car schedule for 2007 is completed and I realized I would soon be going into racing withdrawal and I remembered a friend had the original Gran Turismo so I thought maybe that would help ease the pain. So far it's been a blast and this site has certainly increased the enjoyment factor because I had no idea where to begin in tuning a car.
Thanks again for everything.
👍

Omg! Itz a n00b!1

 

[Thiele]

And let's look forward to the 1 millionth member now.

This is a great achievement, when i first joined about 2 years ago, there were only about 70-80,000 members. (Which is probably about when the homepage was last updated. )

 

[Nicknamealguem]

And let's look forward to the 1 millionth member now.

This is a great achievement, when i first joined about 2 years ago, there were only about 70-80,000 members. (Which is probably about when the homepage was last updated. )

From my calculation and according to my estimative, it will take more and less 50 years until GTP gets 1,000,000 members

 

[Orion]

From my calculation and according to my estimative, it will take more and less 50 years until GTP gets 1,000,000 members

It all depends on when PD makes the next GT's, since I'm sure once GT5 is out, alot of people will be searching around on google, and then find the perfect site to talk GT, and that is GTPlanet. I think the members list would just keep rising and rising.

I think about 10 years or so we would reach 1 million.

 

[solinent]

It all depends on when PD makes the next GT's, since I'm sure once GT5 is out, alot of people will be searching around on google, and then find the perfect site to talk GT, and that is GTPlanet. I think the members list would just keep rising and rising.

I think about 10 years or so we would reach 1 million.

Maybe we shouldn't worry about number of members, but rather, quality of members.

For example, Neogaf just has 25,000 members, but yet it always has more than 1000 (that's 4%) of its members ONLINE at a time. That's impressive.

Of course, they don't accept any new member, there's a waiting time. They probably have like 500 000 000 people in the queue

Congrats Jordan!

 

[SkylineObsession]

My forums, all going well, will have no members registered who have zero posts. Mainly because i've introduced a 30-day/one month limit to make your first post - if none is made in that time then the account is deleted (i send a warning PM one week before the account would be baleeted).

That would be one way to limit the amount of members with no/not many posts (not saying that GTP should do this though).

 

[solinent]

My forums, all going well, will have no members registered who have zero posts. Mainly because i've introduced a 30-day/one month limit to make your first post - if none is made in that time then the account is deleted (i send a warning PM one week before the account would be baleeted).

That would be one way to limit the amount of members with no/not many posts (not saying that GTP should do this though).

Meh, I wouldn't do that. People register for a reason -- to read the posts.

If they registered and made no posts, all it does is make your website look better

 

[SkylineObsession]

Well even if they have one post it is better than nothing, as they've contributed something. This is the first time i've done this for my forums though, a few years back i had about 122 members before moving to a new server (thus losing everything in those forums).

 

[Jordan]

My forums, all going well, will have no members registered who have zero posts. Mainly because i've introduced a 30-day/one month limit to make your first post - if none is made in that time then the account is deleted (i send a warning PM one week before the account would be baleeted).

That would be one way to limit the amount of members with no/not many posts (not saying that GTP should do this though).

Meh, I wouldn't do that. People register for a reason -- to read the posts.

If they registered and made no posts, all it does is make your website look better

I don't see how you are helping yourself by deleting those accounts, Skyline, but not because it will 'make your website look better'. As I have said many times before, a community's user base is an extremely valuable asset, regardless of whether or not most of them are "active". Here, for example, I have the ability to directly contact more than 70,000 people via email. And these aren't just normal people - they are people who have already expressed enough interest in the GT games and in GTPlanet to complete the registration process. If my goal is to grow and encourage participation in my community, I would have to be crazy to remove those users from the site. Even if they have opted not to receive email from me, they still may receive forum digests or thread subscription updates, which brings them back to the site. Online communities have everything to lose and nothing to gain by deleting inactive accounts, and I don't understand why this is such a continually reoccurring topic both here and abroad.

 

[Thiele]

From my calculation and according to my estimative, it will take more and less 50 years until GTP gets 1,000,000 members

Nah, i don't think so, we'll probably get another 100,000members in the year that gt5 comes out, then probably 50,000 each year after that. I'd say about 20 years. I'll still be around then.

 

[SkylineObsession]

Good points Jordan.

I think i just get a little bothered by people signing up and then not posting (alm ost guilty of this myself at some places), my forums have never been huge (possibly because they are pretty much just a general discussion/talk about anything forum) so inactive members get more of my attention i guess.

As yet (forum has been up since July?) i haven't deleted any members and only had to warn a couple. I do have to keep deleting spam bot accounts though, a bit too often.

To be honest i am having second thoughts about that rule after your post.

 

[<_Spike_>]

Thought I'd just say great stuff...at least more than half the members actually post unlike many forums I've seen, they make a big deal about getting 10K users when only 10 regularly post.

 

[Thiele]

I know, over the time i've been here people keep bringing back the issue about inactive members and it's really annoying. As Jordan said, that just makes the site look better and does not help the site in any way to delete inactive members. And some forums have much less percentage of users active than 30% (at a guess on this one)

 

[Philly]

I know, over the time i've been here people keep bringing back the issue about inactive members and it's really annoying. As Jordan said, that just makes the site look better and does not help the site in any way to delete inactive members. And some forums have much less percentage of users active than 30% (at a guess on this one)

I think the question for this is which sounds better: a 100% user participation or a 100,000 member list. Or, if we wanted to delete accounts that are pretty much inactive, we could show the stats for who really contributes and takes part in discussions.

 

[beer-2k]

Nah, i don't think so, we'll probably get another 100,000members in the year that gt5 comes out, then probably 50,000 each year after that. I'd say about 20 years. I'll still be around then.

Congrats jwane. We all hope to see more participation in this forums compared to me. Anyways, I did a search on google for "gran turismo" and this site came up top ten. #7 to be exact. That was interesting.

 

[mazda 787B race]

cograts jwane!! you are a new member of the GTP family! I'm a new member too! if you would like to be my buddy my acount name is nazda 787B race.I'm prity shure that in eather the 100,001st or the 100,002nd member.well if I ever get any images or news about GT 5 I'l be shure to let you know.

from:mazda 787B race:tup:

 

[daan]

I'm prity shure that in eather the 100,001st or the 100,002nd member.

You're about 300 over the 100,000th member.... jwane joined nearly a month ago.

 

[Patrik]

Congrats!

The best forum on the web in my opinion 👍

 

[alba]

The best GT community worldwide :-)

 

[Philly]

Hmm. Our lucky number 100,000 hasn't posted since the 6th. Of October. Please don't leave us!

 

[standard235]

It's alright Philly. His last activity was yesterday. At least he isn't posting 100 threads about things already answered and then getting defensive and going to suck his sore paw in a corner.

I just logged in for the first time in... uhhh... a year. Ohh GTP how you have grown.

 

[Philly]

Yeah. I know. Bu tit worries me that he isn't getting very involved. The rest of the boards are great places for post whoring.

Is GTP really that much bigger? I joined when you got off it looks like. It doesn't look all that different, but I'm not one to notice.

 

[jwane]

I apologize for the lack of participation but the company I work for has been gearing up for a move into a new facility and I've been working 12 hour shifts for most of the last two months. This is a long term care facility so getting the new one ready and getting our residents prepared for the move has been time consuming. Most of my department's extra work is done so hopefully I can be here more often.

 

[Thiele]

I know Jwayne was member 100,000, but if you go to his profile his member ID is 100124. That's really odd...

 

[Philly]

Doesn't that account for the number of bannations and things?

Great to see you back and participating, jwane!👍

 

[Thiele]

Ah, so the banned members aren't counted?

 

[Jordan]

Banned members are still counted, but accounts which have been deleted over the years, obviously, do not count.

 

[superberkut]

Yeah. I know. Bu tit worries me that he isn't getting very involved. The rest of the boards are great places for post whoring.

Is GTP really that much bigger? I joined when you got off it looks like. It doesn't look all that different, but I'm not one to notice.

Well, it certainly feels more organized than many forums I have seen when viewing it outside of my account, even as a member logged-in.