How many replies to your posts offering Rooms and/or Share Rentals do you Receive

[helenscott08]

I am not sure if this is appropriate place for this posting.

However, I have posted in the Housing, Offered box many times and NEVER GET REPLIES but do receive them from CRAIGS LIST...

Why is this??? Have I missed something somewhere. Please help me understand this.

Thanks,

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707-324-3108

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[Tars]

I I have posted in the Housing, Offered box many times and NEVER GET REPLIES but do receive them from CRAIGS LIST...

Why is this??? Have I missed something somewhere. Please help me understand this.

I thought someone else would reply to your post. But since they didn't....

The largest difference between WaccoBB and craigslist, is a matter of scale. On the bottom of the main forums page, one can see the usage statistics for WaccBB. Currently it says:

WaccoBB Statistics

Members 10,651

Total members that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 194

The most members online over 24 hours was 256, 08-24-2010 at 12:11 AM.

Total membership is over 10K; not shabby at all for a local discussion forum. But craigslist is the ultimate classified ads, surely beating out any other ads periodical, and discussion board. Of WaccoBB's 10K+ members, only maybe 1-2% login on any given day. Again, not bad for a local discussion place, but not even within sight of the ballpark that craigslist draws. Craigslist doesn't publish user data, but I'd be surprised if there aren't 10K+ visitors on the site at any given time, just from Sonoma County alone.

["Mad" Miles]

Very good points Tars.

You neglected to mention that the vast majority of waccobb.net subscribers / members get it as an email digest. They never look at it on the website. So the stats you use, only reflect the actions of a minority of the 10K+ waccoons.

Why people get the digest, and don't read the traffic on the web, is a mystery to me. It seems so much easier to pick and choose what to read, rather than scrolling through a long email. But hey, chacun à son goût !

[podfish]

Why people get the digest, and don't read the traffic on the web, is a mystery to me. It seems so much easier to pick and choose what to read, rather than scrolling through a long email.

I can give one answer for that, since I fit into that group. It may sound silly, but clicking and waiting seems tedious, while scrolling doesn't. Hell if I know why; computers have really screwed with our sense of proportion when a click followed by a tiny delay seems to be a problem to avoid! I no longer use a toaster, by the way - a blowtorch is so much better.
I've even found that I won't look at the newly popular slideshow-style web articles, where you click once for each image-with-text. I prefer sites like (I think) Vanity Fair's, where instead of clicking links for each page, they offer a "show as single page" link.
Maybe it's due to training with newspapers, where there's a profusion of articles scattered all over each page, and you ignore most of them. But I'd much rather have the digest as one long page rather than use a bunch o' links.