a little question/suggestion

Trotsa · Post by **Trotsa** » April 1st, 2014, 1:09 pm

Hey, I'm just wondering, I was looking at the list of members, and I was curious why someone doesn't delete some of the people off who signed up years ago and only posted like once or twice? Its not like it bothers me really bad, but I thought it would make for a lot more accurate list of recorders if the ones from say two years ago and more would be taken off. Thanks for letting me say what I think, if there is a good reason for leaving them on, I would be interested in hearing it!

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » April 1st, 2014, 2:06 pm

Not all people who have registered on the forum make recordings - 43,000+ people have registered, but only about 6000 have ever recorded anything. But all are welcome to contribute to LibriVox in countless ways: post thank you notes, make suggestions of books to read, proof-listen, report errors, make covers etc.

Ruth

tovarisch · Post by **tovarisch** » April 1st, 2014, 2:30 pm

Perhaps we need a mechanism to give statistics about people who have recorded anything, or edited, or coordinated. We have some individual data, but no pages that would list all that did and how much and when...

Post by **TriciaG** » April 1st, 2014, 2:38 pm

Perhaps we need a mechanism to give statistics about people who have recorded anything, or edited, or coordinated. We have some individual data, but no pages that would list all that did and how much and when...

UGH! I cannot imagine the bear that would be.

Trotsa · Post by **Trotsa** » April 1st, 2014, 2:41 pm

It does sound like a pain to keep track of. I had mostly thought of removing the ones that never posted or only posted one or two posts, but maybe you can do things here and never post much, I hadn't thought of that! Thanks for telling me, like I said, I was just curious why so many are on that had so few posts.

Post by **TriciaG** » April 1st, 2014, 2:43 pm

I think there are people that sign up to the forum to report an error, or to suggest a book, or whatever, and may not post again, ever. Or someone might have goofed on their forum signup and created an account they have never used. Right now it doesn't cause much hardship for the forum software, so we haven't worried about it.

Post by **icequeen** » April 1st, 2014, 4:03 pm

And you never know, someone who signed up 5 or 6 years ago, but never did anything, may suddenly think of us and start contributing. Weirder things have happened.

ashleighjane · Post by **ashleighjane** » April 2nd, 2014, 7:53 am

icequeen wrote:And you never know, someone who signed up 5 or 6 years ago, but never did anything, may suddenly think of us and start contributing. Weirder things have happened.

I know that it took me a couple of years to find the courage to record for Librivox!

ETA: I just noticied that it was actually months. Felt like years though

Trotsa · Post by **Trotsa** » April 2nd, 2014, 8:36 am

ashleighjane wrote:
I know that it took me a couple of years to find the courage to record for Librivox!

ETA: I just noticied that it was actually months. Felt like years though

Glad you managed to get into it!

I hadn't realized this stuff, thanks everybody for being so helpful!

YouTube · Post by **Darvinia** » April 13th, 2014, 6:32 pm

icequeen wrote:And you never know, someone who signed up 5 or 6 years ago, but never did anything, may suddenly think of us and start contributing. Weirder things have happened.

And here is one!
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