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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5712842" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>Preceisely, and just like offline, those are often the folks you notice aside from your own personal circle.  What many people, who don't think online communities as representative, don't recognize is that for every ten or hundred frequent posters there are thousands of others who post rarely or don't post at all, sometimes voting in polls or voting indirectly by reading certain threads but not reading othetrs, etc.  When people describe the Internet as "the vocal minority" they are ignoring the majority of people who use the Internet quietly or silently right alongside everyone else.  That's why I say that except for vocabulary choices, the online communities are quite representative of their offline counterparts (and becoming more so with each passing day).</p></blockquote><p></p>