Before committing myself to a specific description, what is the difference between a geek and a nerd? - if there is one!
Quote from: Phillip Clark on 01/07/2012 05:34 pmBefore committing myself to a specific description, what is the difference between a geek and a nerd? - if there is one!For the purpose of this conversation we don't need to differentiate. Just as with the Fermi paradox you don't need to come up with a definition of life that matches all life. It is better to propose something you can easily measure.So, for this conversation, we could define a space geek as someone who would post once a week or more on a space subject in a public forum. Or you could choose once a day, but that would exclude me.Im puzzled that from a billion odd people, the number of regular posters is not beyond the scope of a single reader to absorb every day. For example if only one in a million people posted every day, that would still mean reading a thousand posts a day. One in a million is like serial-killer rare.
I think you missed my post. You *should* be saying "Wow, I was wrong" if just the forum on just this site gets *that* amount of people through the door, then I was so wrong about my OP.Or, you'd have to be specific about people who take the bigger step of posting about the subject, which is mitigated by the fact you wouldn't want thousands of people posting "Hi, I like launch vehicles" and not much else. People naturally work out that they are best to contribute towards the debate, and sometimes most people would rather listen.So long as there's people listenining....
You're judging this all wrong! It's not about how many posts! It's about how many readers/visitors. If someone posts or not, that's completely irrelevant!!Are you going to judge Fox News' site on the amount of posts in their comment section, most of which are terrible? Their top story for most of today has 197 posts. Are you going to say there's no interest in our armed forces then?