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It might help if we could follow people's posting behavior ... do they start with "hello" and then move to the Lounge, for instance? I know I didn't. If I recall correctly, I started out in the calibre forum. It's possible that we have multiple types of users. Those might include the technical-question user, who starts in the software/device/whatever forum they need, and later migrates elsewhere, the social user, who starts in "hello", moves to the Lounge, and maybe later on checks out News or General, and perhaps the author user, who posts mostly or entirely to Self-Promotion or Freebies. Those are all different sorts of people, and likely to act in different ways. Of course, they overlap in all directions (a recent problematic author comes to mind), and they morph into each other, but I think looking at where they start and where they progress might be important. That's particularly true for ourselves; in the discussion here, I've seen several people (me included) sort of assuming that users follow our own pattern, and that's really only true for our own flavor of users.
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