{"id":164,"date":"2006-10-19T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T06:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-10-19T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T06:25:27","slug":"the-95-5-0-1-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"The 95-5-0.1 rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my other blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/commswatch\/\">CommsWatch<\/a>, a few weeks ago I did a posting titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/commswatch\/2006\/08\/who_are_the_users_generating_c.html\">&#8220;Who are the users generating content?&#8221;<\/a> In that posting, I stated: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; &#8230; most Net users are still overwhelmingly consumers rather than producers &#8211; although this is obviously changing. My website and two weblogs between them average around 3,000 visitors a day but typically the comments posted to the blogs average a mere one a day. Over the time I have been blogging, I have made a total of 2,823 postings but, over the same period, the number of comments posted has only been 667. That is an average of only one comment for every four or so postings.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that my experience is actually typical of the Net. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/participation_inequality.html\">this article<\/a>, it points out that for online communities as a whole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;User participation often more or less follows a 90-9-1 rule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don&#8217;t contribute).\n<li>9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time.\n<li>1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to argue: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are about 1.1 billion Internet users, yet only 55 million users (5%) have weblogs according to Technorati. Worse, there are only 1.6 million postings per day; because some people post multiple times per day, only 0.1% of users post daily. Blogs have even worse participation inequality than is evident in the 90-9-1 rule that characterizes most online communities. With blogs, the rule is more like 95-5-0.1.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t feel obliged to comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my other blog CommsWatch, a few weeks ago I did a posting titled &#8220;Who are the users generating content?&#8221; In that posting, I stated: &#8221; &#8230; most Net users are still overwhelmingly consumers rather than producers &#8211; although this is obviously changing. My website and two weblogs between them average around 3,000 visitors a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}