Why do some new members do this?

[Apparatus 10]

I'm just super shy. ; v ; I'd love to be here more but I don't know how to contribute more. 

[Callisto 1,874]

A lot of times, I think they just forget about it, or get distracted by another site. I know it's happened to me my fair share of times.

[ChoroChii 284]

It's hard to get into new sites, everybody has their reasons. :u You can't force others to stay on a site, I don't see how it's annoying or saddening, that's their choice. 

[The Pulse 210]

I was inactive for quite some time after initially joining the forums. Mostly because I didn't have much time (avoiding showing parent's and sibligs, Now all but my dad and sister know) and didn't find all that much to talk about, so I lost interest for a while. 

 

Then as I said, most of the family knows (and honestly I stopped caring). Plus I started to hang out with @Kolth more IRL and used this to get in touch with him. There are quite a few more reasons, but I don't feel like taking the time to write them down.

 

As for why others disappear, I honestly don't know, but would assume it's for similar reasons.

Edited December 26, 2013 by The Pulse

[TheMoonPie 15]

I'm pretty new and I'm inactive a lot. Most of the times its just hard to find things to do here, it doesn't help that I don't know a lot of people here either and that I'm shy......

[DokiLoki 518]

I'm not sure if I made a thread about this but even if I did I'm going to make my opinion about it. I personally think the reason why new members join and than in a short period of time suddenly go inactive is because one: they're either getting bored and changed their mind to physically go on the forums everyday to make posts or two: the lack of popularity and lonliness. Dunno...

Edited December 26, 2013 by Cherry Changa

[HunterTSN 1,444]

Well some people show up with high expectations, get to know the general populace, and then leave as soon as possible. That's what I would do were I smart.

Edited December 26, 2013 by TheSteampunkNinja (TSN)

[The Pulse 210]

I'm pretty new and I'm inactive a lot. Most of the times its just hard to find things to do here, it doesn't help that I don't know a lot of people here either and that I'm shy......

 

That can be remedied, You'd be surprised at just how friendly people on these forums can be If you ever need some one to talk to just send me a pm.

[Inactive01 5,298]

I'm just gonna guess that they're simply too invested in other things to do, and that when they joined the forums, they didn't consider those other things. Either that, or they may have had a bad first impression when joining the forums which led them to decide not to come back.

[Daily Dashereeee 8]

Supposedly because of a busy life outside of the internet? I'm new here and after reading this post, I realize I don't want to disappear away from the forums and I'll try to stay active, even juggling hw and school projects. 

[Guest90210 3,567]

Maybe the Illuminati and New World Order has something to do with this? Maybe it's all a secret plan to slowly introduce new members to the forums at an increasing pace, making the higher ups on the forum incredibly excited that so many new members are joining. Eventually the web masters will have to upgrade the servers for the site to handle the overload of new members. This will cause the server to crash, exposing the secret stash of classified documents describing a way to enter Equestria buried deep in the code of the website. They will then use this knowledge to enter Equestria and take it over for themselves, then return to earth with their newly acquired pony powers to take this planet over!

 

lol just kidding.

 

People just lose interest I suppose or are too shy to post most of the time.

Edited December 26, 2013 by Rivendare

[Sugar Cube 4,843]

Sometimes when people join a forum they do hope to have fun and make friends and stay active, but things don't always end up that way. I'm sure plenty of people sign up with huge expectations and high hopes, but when they don't find enough topics to post in or they have trouble finding friends, they grow bored and leave.

 

I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I first signed up for the forum back in October 2011 when this place wasn't even a week old. I was never incredibly active as far as posting goes, but bear in mind that this place was much smaller back then and probably less active as a whole. At that time I had no close friends like I do now so I grew bored after about three months and never came back until a year later when season 3 was in full swing. It was a great decision to finally come back though. I've never been more excited about logging onto a forum than this one here and now.

[Metemponychosis 1,236]

I don't know if someone already brought this up, but I think that they are disappointed. Most of the times, people leave their review of an episode and are gone. They only discuss stuff if someone quotes or mentions them. So I guess that people expect other to say what they think of their opinions, and are disappointed when no one seems to care about what they think. So they leave.

[crazitaco 596]

Eh, forums don't really appeal to everyone. Its a matter of preference.

Not gonna lie, i originally came to these forums because i heard about our minecraft server and wanted in. In order to get in, you needed to have like 10 posts or something.

I ended up loving this place, and i've still yet to actually go on the minecraft server. (cause its always an outdated version! lol)

Those who leave probably just didn't get the push they needed to actually start posting, and thus lost interest.

Edited December 26, 2013 by crazitaco

[OutlineOfChalk 6]

I've recently joined, a few days ago actually. I've been looking around, lurking as some would say. I don't really feel the need to post things, I like looking at other things and responding when it's needed.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,283]

It could be an impulse caused by different things. Maybe they had extreme excitement for the show, seen the forums and though 'Wow! Community!' And register, made a thread and never came back. They probably never had intentions to be active, because it may have been an impulse registration. Others could be more lurkers than posters. Impulse registrations I think are a big thing that causes this for any forum, plus what others have said.

[UltimaX 63]

The new members that join the forums and say that they're happy to be here have the new experience hype. Everyone get them. When they try something new and love it and that the only thing they do fore the next few days. I get it when I buy a new video game.

 

So all the new users think they will find the perfect place where they can spend the time having fun. But then they don't get started into the deeper parts of this site. And just lose interest. 

[Finesthour 7,284]

Well, look at my case. I'm a very old member, yet I do the same. Whenever you are no longer apart (or if you weren't in the first place) of the "popular" group, hanging around seems idiotic. If you won't be noticed by anyone, what's the point of posting on the forum?

 

While this view is very flawed, it's how I felt for over a year now.

[Oblivion 20,265]

Also keep in mind that like a new toy the "newness" will wear off and forum life just becomes boring for some people in all honesty. 

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

Who knows. They could be busy, or get bored with it after a while. 

[Clawdeen 12,109]

If I join a forum and it’s inactive I don’t stick around. The only reason I’d join and not stick around is if it were dead or the community was toxic.

[Rainbow Cloud 16,290]

I've been guilty of this on quite a few forums, one of the main reasons for me is that it's really hard to get to know people and fit in when joining a new community, it's something that takes time and you have to stick at for a while but it's also easy to drift away if it feels like you're not really getting anywhere.

[Splashee 28,537]

So they actually did this back in 2013 as well?

 

So I see a pattern. People register, wait a while, then post a welcome post, gets a lot of welcome replies, and then never come back. In 2013 I would just blame it on Twilight's wings. But it is happening now as well. It is not that they try to join. It is just that they don't try to stay. And I don't know why!

 

If we could ask them? But, as pointed out by the thread, they have left.

[Bastian 13,319]

4 minutes ago, Splashee said:

So they actually did this back in 2013 as well?

 

So I see a pattern. People register, wait a while, then post a welcome post, gets a lot of welcome replies, and then never come back. In 2013 I would just blame it on Twilight's wings. But it is happening now as well. It is not that they try to join. It is just that they don't try to stay. And I don't know why!

 

If we could ask them? But, as pointed out by the thread, they have left.

I don't understand it either, there was this guy called @Gillycynder who I met in a welcome post and never did anything else. He left without saying goodbye with no reason at all!

[Oblivion 20,265]

13 minutes ago, Splashee said:

So they actually did this back in 2013 as well?

 

So I see a pattern. People register, wait a while, then post a welcome post, gets a lot of welcome replies, and then never come back. In 2013 I would just blame it on Twilight's wings. But it is happening now as well. It is not that they try to join. It is just that they don't try to stay. And I don't know why!

 

If we could ask them? But, as pointed out by the thread, they have left.

I mean, I've signed up for sites before and completely forgot I have, the same thing happens in my discord as well to a degree, 5 people join and maybe if I'm lucky one stays, its really quite silly if you think about it I mean come on... XD