Has AN become less active in recent times?

[gerald_mcdonald]

How does it compared to previous years?

Are we retaining our old members or are most of them deleting their accounts when VCE ends?

Are the currently existing AN users more active than previous years? How does it compare to previous years?

Are we getting better or worse moderators?

How many members have gotten registered in total in 2010? how about in 2009 and previous years? how to they compare? is this number increasing?

when do the mods expect every year 12 student in australia to be aware of the existence of Atar notes and the marvellous service/help it provides to worried and stressed out students?

if enough students join, will ATAR notes ever charge money to students for access to this forum?



just curious, on som of the above quesitons coz people seem to have high hopes.

[werdna]

It's funny, there are more registered members but less (useful) posts.

[ninwa]

The only definite answer I have is no we will never charge students any sort of money to access anything

[luken93]

The only definite answer I have is no we will never charge students any sort of money to access anything

you'll just make money off us by selling our emails instead

[iNerd]

The only definite answer I have is no we will never charge students any sort of money to access anything

you'll just make money off us by selling our emails instead

[Gloamglozer]

How does it compared to previous years?

You'll get around the same patterns of activity.  Around exam time and when uni offers come out, you'll see activity explode to the point that it implodes haha.  But you get the point.  Around this time, it's around about average.  Also, during school holidays you'll see activity spike up a bit.

Are we retaining our old members or are most of them deleting their accounts when VCE ends?

Most of the active posters hang around post-VCE.  You might see decreased activity due to commitments but mods will hang around because this is one of our commitments.

Are the currently existing AN users more active than previous years? How does it compare to previous years?

Unfortunately, I cannot answer that question accurately without the available statistics.  Perhaps one of the admins will have that information.

Are we getting better or worse moderators?

We attempt to do our best to work collaboratively to maintain these forums, if you are unhappy with the behaviour or actions of one of the moderators, you are more than free to approach them via PM or go higher up to either ninwa or enwiabe.

How many members have gotten registered in total in 2010? how about in 2009 and previous years? how to they compare? is this number increasing?

I think this page should give you some information.  Although it doesn't answer your question directly it should help. 

when do the mods expect every year 12 student in australia to be aware of the existence of Atar notes and the marvellous service/help it provides to worried and stressed out students?

As you may be aware, with the recent expansion of VCE Notes into ATAR Notes, the administrators of this forum are currently planning ahead to advertise and promote the existence of the site.  Currently, one of the major public projects is The Age Careers Expo which AN will be attending.

if enough students join, will ATAR notes ever charge money to students for access to this forum?

Already answered.

[Ghost!]

As Gloam said, you have different levels of activity depending on the time of the year, over the holidays and around exam time there's always a huge spike in posting/members joining.

[DavidB3ck]

The only definite answer I have is no we will never charge students any sort of money to access anything

Do donations count? :p

[Ghost!]

The only definite answer I have is no we will never charge students any sort of money to access anything

Do donations count? :p

Compulsory donations

[chrisjb]

In response to OP, I've noticed that also. It seems like there's less posters, but maybe it's just my imagination. My usage has definitely dropped over the past 2 months. I installed that procrastination blocker thing in an effort to cut down on FB and VN and it means that I can spend only 40 minutes a day on each (FB accounts for about 30 mins of that and VN accounts for the rest).

That said, some boards are much more active than last year (Legal board has got a lot more posters this year and so do some other subjects). I'm sure that for some subjects the posting has probably dropped too.

Thinking back, I can't actually remember VN being all that active this time last year (although in the months prior to April last year I was on that other, far less active, student forum).

It'll definitely warm up around mid-years and then again before finals.