Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to complete the questionnaire and add useful comments.
We had some very complimentary comments about the forum too, so thank you!
Below is a summary of the responses. Most members did respond.
We have a small core of regulars who visit and post daily, unless something prevents them.
There are several others who visit regularly but less often than the daily posters.
The rest visit rarely, or in a couple of cases haven't visited the forum for some time.
The majority do post when they drop in.
A couple of members don't post regularly as they feel they have nothing to say.
Of the members who are not regular visitors and posters the majority mentioned lack of time, and/or having had health or social problems preventing them. Or just life getting in the way!
Only two members said there is nothing at all to interest them on the forum.
The majority of less regular posters said they wanted and intended to post more often.
One member said she didn't have the energy to be empathetic to others, due to things going on in her life. She didn't feel right in asking for support from others when she couldn't give it.
Two members pointed out that more members would make the forum more interesting, but that as we are so small and know each other well it may be difficult for new members to join in.
One member remarked that with so much being posted on the Daily Chat thread, a less regular visitor misses a lot of important and interesting content.
This last point is exactly what we Admin feel.
Chatbox is lovely, but it is only seen by us daily posters . It is time consuming to scroll back, even a day or two.
We are all guilty of this, and I make a real effort to make separate threads. It is OK to duplicate too, so you could post something in Chat which would make an interesting topic of it's own, and copy and paste into a separate thread.
We do feel it will make for a livelier and more interesting forum if more went into threads.
I know when I am looking back for topics to mention in my newsletters, there are few threads and wading back though days and weeks of Chat is too time consuming!
Thank you so much for your input.
We had some very complimentary comments about the forum too, so thank you!
Below is a summary of the responses. Most members did respond.
We have a small core of regulars who visit and post daily, unless something prevents them.
There are several others who visit regularly but less often than the daily posters.
The rest visit rarely, or in a couple of cases haven't visited the forum for some time.
The majority do post when they drop in.
A couple of members don't post regularly as they feel they have nothing to say.
Of the members who are not regular visitors and posters the majority mentioned lack of time, and/or having had health or social problems preventing them. Or just life getting in the way!
Only two members said there is nothing at all to interest them on the forum.
The majority of less regular posters said they wanted and intended to post more often.
One member said she didn't have the energy to be empathetic to others, due to things going on in her life. She didn't feel right in asking for support from others when she couldn't give it.
Two members pointed out that more members would make the forum more interesting, but that as we are so small and know each other well it may be difficult for new members to join in.
One member remarked that with so much being posted on the Daily Chat thread, a less regular visitor misses a lot of important and interesting content.
This last point is exactly what we Admin feel.
Chatbox is lovely, but it is only seen by us daily posters . It is time consuming to scroll back, even a day or two.
We are all guilty of this, and I make a real effort to make separate threads. It is OK to duplicate too, so you could post something in Chat which would make an interesting topic of it's own, and copy and paste into a separate thread.
We do feel it will make for a livelier and more interesting forum if more went into threads.
I know when I am looking back for topics to mention in my newsletters, there are few threads and wading back though days and weeks of Chat is too time consuming!
Thank you so much for your input.
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