The cycle of the CPA members

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dw51688

Guest
Have you noticed that the cycle of the CPA, is date of register, light posting, heavy posting, and general decline + prowling more than you post. Then unfortunately you eventually will leave. None of the last stage happened yet thankfully.
 
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mogg bomber

Guest
That's not always true, if it is then I have been in the light posting stage for around 7 months now. And that last step has happened before too. Magic Jackal left for awhile, but he came back then. And most of those people FoR brought to the site went through that whole cycle, I don't think any of them post here anymore.
 
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Hawaiian mage

Guest
Oh no! I just started posting alot too!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! The end is near!
 
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Darsh

Guest
Excellent, When everyone starts posting less I will continue to post often and I will have the most posts out of everyone! MUWHAHAHA! I think you're making too big a deal out of this dw, there doesn't seem to be less posts now than when I first got here (o' so long ago).
 
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FoundationOfRancor

Guest
I think thats the *average* of what happens.

Its happened before, and it will happen again.



But not to everyone...
 
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Zadok001

Guest
That happens to a lot of 'boards, most notably, Dojo's old boards. The difference is, we notice it here. See, the New Members forums makes it so we recognize a lot of the people 'round here by name, so if someone drops off, we realize it really quick like... :)
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
You mean before they switched to that new format and everyone pretty much came over here? :)

I must be the exception to your rule, dw. But I've noticed a lot of people from early in the year who aren't around as much:

most of the Founders
Seeker of Truth
ChasDen
...
 
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Zadok001

Guest
Yeah, the Great Exodus Of the Dojo.

Chasden shows up when we ask him to, but he has a store to manage... Good excuse, neh? :) The thing is, this is a true statement for almost any message board (perhaps not that exact cycle, however), people always leave eventually. But there are those who become permanent residents, like Spidey here. And some of the Founders, like Ed and I. Those people aren't going anywhere, at least not in the forseeable future. So it's all good. People drop off, yeah, that's life. But hey, we keep all the _really_ cool ones, neh? :)

"... or not, where's Ferret again?"
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
Yeah, but as Ed alluded to about a month ago in another forum, he's got two years or so before college which I imagine will take him away from this site. As he's the only one really maintaining it, is it going to go down then? Or will someone pick up the slack?

I'm also looking for another job which will presumably keep me more busy than now :). I'll probably end up being a weekend person or something... (still in the future though)
 
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arhar

Guest
Personally, I'm not posting a lot not because I got bored with CPA but because unfortunately, I have a tight schedule in college + trying to start up a serious website. And whenever I have free time I try to relax and have some real-life fun instead of being online. But I'm still here from time to time. These boards will always be special to me because this is the friendliest online community I have ever been in. And sometimes I don't post because I read the thread and find that everything that I wanted to say been said already :)

I think the same thing goes for a lot of other older members. People are not around mainly due to real life kicking in :)
 
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dw51688

Guest
I was just bringing this up because Jaws told me about this during lunch @ school 2 days ago.
 
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Jaws10387

Guest
huh?

You never talked about member cycles in school dennis.
 
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Ihsans Shade

Guest
Don't worry. I've been with the CPA for over a year now(it won't show that if you check the members list, long story). I've gone through this cycle, and I'm still here. I started off just posting on the Casual decks forum, and stuck to that. I haven't posted there for three to five months easy. Then I went to the General CPA board, and have been posting there ever since. It's just adaptaion. You start off some where comfortable, and expand from there. I've even been gone from the boards for a total of five months, not my choice I MUST add. Some people fit in here, and some move on, don't worry. As long as we get more members than we lose were going to be around for a long time.

I am...
Ihsan's Shade
 
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DÛke

Guest
...Dw...
You know why?
Well, I'm not going to tell you.
Would you like me to show you YOUR "CPA Cycle"?
I'd be more than happy to do it...
 
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