Are we top heavy?

[Han]

(09-17-2015 04:59 PM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  Thinning that I usually see the same members posting, I just ran some quick statistics to see how top heavy we are. There are currently 32 senior members (300 posts or more) and they account for 45% or all posts. 32 members is almost exactly 1% of total members. This is worse than the US wealth inequality where the top 1% hold 35% of the wealth. Should we be concerned that we don't have a more egalitarian forum?

(I admit to being part of the 1% here, but not the other 1%.)

How many of the topics do those 32 members create? I think we should certainly have concern if it were the case that the "top" were overloading the forums with topics/threads they created. On the other hand, if most of their posts are in response to someone else's post, then it would seem that the forums are in fact in healthy condition. I see the former as the "top" taking control over the forums by bumping "everyone else's" topic down into oblivion (which would be a problem) whereas the latter as the "top" contributing to discussions on a forum that would otherwise be too quiet with posts very few and far in between.