Now I'm getting excited! 
This Site Will Soon Have 7 Million Members !!!
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This is a chess site. If there are seven million accounts here but only about 1 million of them have actually played a chess game, what is going on?
Apr 14, 2013
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#84
Thanks for the posts, yes we are getting very close to " the Big 7 " now.
Apr 15, 2013
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#86
Thanks for the update Owlmoon, just a few days now and this target will be reached.
Runsledale wrote:
This is a chess site. If there are seven million accounts here but only about 1 million of them have actually played a chess game, what is going on?
The site counts all accounts that have ever been created as "members". The numbers are false.
True: the site will have 7,000,000 members fairly soon. But if you search members, you'll find that a huge number of them (possibly more than half) are totally inactive.
Apr 15, 2013
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#89
Oonland wrote:
True: the site will have 7,000,000 members fairly soon. But if you search members, you'll find that a huge number of them (possibly more than half) are totally inactive.
I'd fancy a guess that more that eighty percent are inactive, closed or duplicates.
Owlmoon wrote:
6,934,434 members last I checked.
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Owlmoon wrote:
6,946,967
Granted, most of the difference there are the closed accounts of Bangladeshi spammers.
Apr 15, 2013
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#91
How many of these 7 million accounts have been closed and are no longer functioning?
fianchetto123 wrote:
What if half the members on the site are 3.05 million accounts of the same user? He is monopolizing the staff, forums, groups, every aspect of the site HELP
That's possible.
I wonder if chess.com include the number of accounts that have also been closed in this figure "number of members"?
Also, the number of active members who periodically use the site compared to the "6 million members" who are registered is something noteworthy too.
That being said, this is the only website I have used to play chess so I cannot say this is the best site for that purpose, but the fact it attracts and has so many members (lots of titled and recgonized chess players too) speaks for itself.
That is interesting about the user that did a random "member search" for profiles and found that the majority of users have been inactive for a long time.
I did the same thing (looking at random profiles) and noticed this: MOST of the profiles I saw had an identical "member since" date with their "last online" date, and no games played.
Why would so many people create an account on a chess server, not play any chess games, and not ever log back on again? I suppose a broader question would be, did these people even knowingly create an account?
Perhaps this site's connection with "Face Book" may explain some of this.
Eh, who cares, most of them would have sucked anyway.
Well yes point well taken. But some may care if the site is mendaciously claiming a certain membership that is about twenty times what the actual membership is.
It is analogous to Germany, with a population of 82 million, claiming on their census to have a population of 1.6 billion instead.
Yeah, right!
All of those inactive members can't have involuntarily created their account here, 'cause even if you call a Facebook account your own, you are particularly asked to come up with a screen name.
So, I guess they just signed here up because their friends did so. Or they didn't know how to play, had a glance at the rules and quickly abandoned their account.
Maybe they're all playing Shogi right now? :)
Apr 15, 2013
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#98
Maybe they're all playing Shogi right now? :)
Yeah, that's much easier to learn.
...more like 6.9 million ghost members...and don't forget all their "silicon friends"...
6,934,434 members last I checked.