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This seems like very important information worth sharing in general but also wherever these stats are posted including in the software itself (via (?) or tooltip).
It also means that the real number of active users, which includes lurkers, is actually higher.
I still think the majority of registered users are bots though. I don't think we have actually have 2,000,000 people on here.
What's a good estimate of lurkers? 10% of actives? 200% of actives?
No one is in disagreement that bots are the majority of registered users.
I'm a little bit of a lurker yes. I comment when I think I can add something to the discussion, but I usually like to read more than I contribute unfortunately.
Usually places like this follow a 90-9-1 rule (though this will be skewed for now as all the people moving here from reddit are more likely to be in reddits 10%):
90% lurk/simply view 9% participate (vote, etc) 1% create (effort posts, OP, etc).
If we follow this then the actual non-bot number is closer to 400k than 2 million. As I said above though, currently it's skewed.
If it's anything like /r/, it likely follows the 90/9/1 lurk/comment/post rule, or will, once the novelty wear soff and things settle.