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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5537414" data-attributes="member: 177">Respectfully, you are misusing the term &quot;respectfully&quot;.&nbsp; But, it doesn't.While EN World has over 100,000 registered users, that includes all the folks who have dropped by the wayside over the years, and every spammer who ever registered an account to make one post about watches they have to sell before they got banned.&nbsp; The number of folks who are &quot;active&quot; in the non-PBP sections of the boards is probably down in the mid to low hundreds*.&nbsp; The number of folks who are really vocal in the various strong arguments is even smaller. And, the overall market?&nbsp; Using the WotC market survey results (old, but the only hard data we have), it's more like a million than 100,000.&nbsp; So, you're probably off by a factor of two or more on one side, and a factor of ten on the other - so, your estimates of the ratio is off by perhaps a factor of 20.And, your point only solidly applies if we all agree on a given point.&nbsp; But, we are not unified.&nbsp; On any given topic, EN World is usually split, sending no clear message a company can choose to follow to get it &quot;right&quot; to get that segment of the market.&nbsp; If we count this splitting as another factor of two, then your ratio demonstrating our importance is off by a factor of 40!* Or at least, that's what I recall from the last time Morrus checked it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5537414, member: 177"] Respectfully, you are misusing the term "respectfully". But, it doesn't. While EN World has over 100,000 registered users, that includes all the folks who have dropped by the wayside over the years, and every spammer who ever registered an account to make one post about watches they have to sell before they got banned. The number of folks who are "active" in the non-PBP sections of the boards is probably down in the mid to low hundreds*. The number of folks who are really vocal in the various strong arguments is even smaller. And, the overall market? Using the WotC market survey results (old, but the only hard data we have), it's more like a million than 100,000. So, you're probably off by a factor of two or more on one side, and a factor of ten on the other - so, your estimates of the ratio is off by perhaps a factor of 20. And, your point only solidly applies if we all agree on a given point. But, we are not unified. On any given topic, EN World is usually split, sending no clear message a company can choose to follow to get it "right" to get that segment of the market. If we count this splitting as another factor of two, then your ratio demonstrating our importance is off by a factor of 40! [SIZE="1"]* Or at least, that's what I recall from the last time Morrus checked it.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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