An interesting link found from zannechaos

[conuly]

On What Just Happened.

(However, all her comments are here, even though the rant is less complete.)

Is any of this true? I don't know, and would really appreciate more information. But it sure is interesting.

Also, if the fandom counting comm struck you as a good idea, you may also be interested in fandompays.

Edit again: Now there's people talking about buying up lots and lots of SA/LJ stock themselves. I wish them luck, though, again, not sure this is really going to work. It certainly won't work until somebody organizes this shit.

Comments

[conuly]

For all that they like to throw around the "We have 13 million users!" only about 8-10% of that are actually active.

Yeah, and a lot of them are just the same person with multiple accounts.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Considering when I was an active RPer, I had... (hang on, need to count)

Okay, considering when I was an active RPer, I had 13 accounts in addition to this one, yes, I think that number is blown wildly out of proportion, especially given the number of people who RP, and then never bother to delete said accounts, as I have done. (All of my old ones still exist, if only for posterity's sake.)