sozobe wrote:Craven answered this at some point but I'm too rushed slash lazy to look it up -- something about bots or spiders (like, automated programs that search the web to index things for Google and such).
Actually, most are people.
I don't get why people think it's surprising (this isn't the first thread about it). It's just basic attrition.
Of all the people in the world the first filter is, say, those who use the internet.
Of all those people, the next is those who land on an A2K page.
Many of those people will have found the information they need and move on. This is another attrition rate.
Those who actually join is another, those who post is another.
This is pretty standard. Just think of all the sites you visited in your life, and how many you registered on. I register on less than 1% of the sites I visit.
