How many gamers you know post in forums?

[Hairfoot]

I wonder what proportion of gamers posts on gaming forums regularly. I do, so I tend to assume that board chatter represents the general attitudes and interests of the gaming majority.

On the other hand, only 2 of 5 people in my group bother with internet discussions, so online acitivity may be far less relevant to the gaming "community" than it seems to be.

What proportion of the roleplaying gamers you know participate in online discussions of gaming?

EDIT: crap. Poll didn't attach. I was going to ask

1. All
2. Most
3. About half
4. Some
5. Just me

 

[Shemeska]

Among all the gamers I know? A minority.

Among those gamers that buy a lot of books and other RPG stuff? A majority.

 

[Crothian]

Very, very few.

 

[Garmorn]

Very, very few.

Of all of the games I knew. None.

Out of the ones that bough 6 or more books if they could afford them. None

 

[TheNovaLord]

most of them , ~20 of the 25 or so people who i may game with in any given month

really surprised the above posters % are so low

I thought 'forum internet user' was an automatic class skill for rpg-geeks like us!!

 

[Garmorn]

most of them , ~20 of the 25 or so people who i may game with in any given month

really surprised the above posters % are so low

I thought 'forum internet user' was an automatic class skill for rpg-geeks like us!!

Here a additional question? What is the general age of your groups that buy lots of books or post a lot?

My groups average age was 35+ when 3e came out.

Edited: Just remembered. I just joined a group and since one of them contacted me by this board there has to at least one the reads it.

 

[rjdafoe]

Out of the 10 other people that I game with, I am the only one.

 

[Wormwood]

Out of the 10 other people that I game with, I am the only one.

Exactly the same number and result for me as well.

 

[AntiStateQuixote]

Out of the 10 other people that I game with, I am the only one.

Exactly the same number and result for me as well.

Hm . . . sounds familiar. I play with about 10 other people in a couple of different games and to my knowledge none of them posts regularly to any kind of message board and only my wife posts to any at all.

I don't think they even read message boards except when I send them a link to something interesting.

 

[Dannager]

Out of the three groups (so, 15 other people) I DM or play in? I think there might be one other. I'm not even sure of that, though.