Silk Road forums
Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: 3dvision on June 12, 2012, 11:27 pm
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how many users are on the site? And what is the turnover?
It would be cool to know these things, wouldn't it?
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Only if you were a journalist or law enforcement.
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not only that but as a silk road member I'd like to know how many there are the same as me, other silk road members.
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Well the forum alone has over 23.000 members already. Take away all the fake/troll/LE/whatever accounts say 20.000 unique users.
Maybe 25% use the forum, makes 80.000 unique people using Silk Road.
Just guessing a bit here 8)
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Even with someone having the current number it would be impossible to tell because some people have multiple accounts and throw away ones for messaging suspect scammers.
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Even with someone having the current number it would be impossible to tell because some people have multiple accounts and throw away ones for messaging suspect scammers.
But those accounts wouldn't contain bitcoins?
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Even with someone having the current number it would be impossible to tell because some people have multiple accounts and throw away ones for messaging suspect scammers.
But those accounts wouldn't contain bitcoins?
I do have to agree there. Not sure how the rounding works on the back end with showing how many coins people have but I frequently try to keep my buyer/seller account showing 0 on my end.
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how many users are on the site? And what is the turnover?
It would be cool to know these things, wouldn't it?
Number of users on the site = Enough for you not to need to know details.
What is the turnover = It's extremely bad manners to ask people what they earn.
No it would not be cool because it's none of our business in the first place.
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What is the turnover = It's extremely bad manners to ask people what they earn.
That's correct, but it seems that only applies to the UK and Anglicized countries. I just got back from Ukraine for football, and over there it seems that it's rude NOT to ask what someone earns. Almost everyone I met asked and they were proud of it.
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What is the turnover = It's extremely bad manners to ask people what they earn.
That's correct, but it seems that only applies to the UK and Anglicized countries. I just got back from Ukraine for football, and over there it seems that it's rude NOT to ask what someone earns. Almost everyone I met asked and they were proud of it.
If that's the case they need a slapped arse!
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What is the turnover = It's extremely bad manners to ask people what they earn.
That's correct, but it seems that only applies to the UK and Anglicized countries. I just got back from Ukraine for football, and over there it seems that it's rude NOT to ask what someone earns. Almost everyone I met asked and they were proud of it.
If that's the case they need a slapped arse!
Inter-culture competence, my friend. In russia u what to show you money and your wife. in other countries you are going under teh radar and give your wife a burka, in the third country you arent official proud of your country bc of mass killings such as the holocaust of setting the world on fire... twice...
It all depends were you are. But we are all humans and I believe firmly in doint the "right, real thing" works worldwide.
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A better way of determining turnover would be to go through the listings, count the number of reviews for each item in the last week. Would take a bloody age, but would far more accurate, omitting deleted listings and hidden listings of course.
Don't see why it matters though. I think the SR employees, owners, "members of the board", whatever, deserve every BTC cent they get from this business, because it's not just a business, it's a global pioneer, and a shape of what will surely come in the future.
Although it's interesting seeing what the most popular products are.
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I dunno why there is even a need to speculate, it's got nothing what-so-ever to do with us. I don't know why people seem to feel they have the right or even the need to know the inner workings of this place, it's almost as if because they shop here they claim some sort of right to knowledge. I sell here and I'm a mod and I have absolutely no curiosity at all. Just be happy that you are here at all and enjoy the gift you have been given. No need for anything else.
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I know this is horribly, horribly off topic, but in which part of the forum would I request a small, short term loan? About 3.5BTC, for max. 4 days.
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I know this is horribly, horribly off topic, but in which part of the forum would I request a small, short term loan? About 3.5BTC, for max. 4 days.
LOL....product requests.
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I dunno why there is even a need to speculate, it's got nothing what-so-ever to do with us. I don't know why people seem to feel they have the right or even the need to know the inner workings of this place, it's almost as if because they shop here they claim some sort of right to knowledge. I sell here and I'm a mod and I have absolutely no curiosity at all. Just be happy that you are here at all and enjoy the gift you have been given. No need for anything else.
Hit the nail on the head there. It's because everyone seems to think this is a "community" or a "family" and seem to miss the fact that it's just an e-commerce site. I don't care how Amazon works, or who uses it, or how many people buy from a given vendor. I just want my order to show up. Why should I care here?
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I dunno why there is even a need to speculate, it's got nothing what-so-ever to do with us. I don't know why people seem to feel they have the right or even the need to know the inner workings of this place, it's almost as if because they shop here they claim some sort of right to knowledge. I sell here and I'm a mod and I have absolutely no curiosity at all. Just be happy that you are here at all and enjoy the gift you have been given. No need for anything else.
Hit the nail on the head there. It's because everyone seems to think this is a "community" or a "family" and seem to miss the fact that it's just an e-commerce site. I don't care how Amazon works, or who uses it, or how many people buy from a given vendor. I just want my order to show up. Why should I care here?
I kind of half agree with you because I think it depends on if you are talking about the forum or The Road itself. The Road is commercial enterprise, it's a unique one but a commercial enterprise non-the-less. SR is basically a shopping mall in which we, the vendors rent digital space in which we can run our stores. That's it. The forum however I would class as a community to a certain extent although it's a community based on common interests which is justifiably right in this case. The forum is however a social place so naturally people get to know one another TO AN EXTENT and people form bonds. I think the problem is that people think that the community here which we are all a part of crosses over to SR and it gives them a feeling of ownership which is completely misguided. Like I said before we have absolutely no right to openly speculate on how much DPR makes just like nobody has the right to openly speculate on how much a vendor makes. It's nobodies business but theirs because it is after all THEIR business which we are lucky enough to be able to use. I would have thought that people would show more respect for those that do so much for us. From my own standpoint on this if I saw people publicly speculating on how much I was making they'd get both barrels there and then and I'd probably contact the admin about it.
Boundaries people, boundaries.
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a couple of months ago (anybody remember when exactly?) there was a security overhall on SR,
with many statistics-leaking features removed.
Before that, the number of registered users could be inferred from the account URLs.
There were ~ 200 000 registered account at the time.
so my pretty random and somewhat conservative estimate for now is around 300 000.
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a couple of months ago (anybody remember when exactly?) there was a security overhall on SR,
with many statistics-leaking features removed.
Before that, the number of registered users could be inferred from the account URLs.
There were ~ 200 000 registered account at the time.
so my pretty random and somewhat conservative estimate for now is around 300 000.
Why do you even care?
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That figure is likely to be an overestimate, with plenty of alias/non-purchasing/non-active accounts.
But what lim said, it makes no difference to me. At the end of the day, if I'm high, I'm good.
It's a shame more buyers don't use the forum though. Even when a product is openly defamed on the boards, plenty of people still buy it. The forums are the ideal way of getting decent vendors more custom.
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Why do you even care?
I don't care to explain.
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At the end of the day, if I'm high, I'm good.
Exactly and that's all you need to be. DPR looks after our interests, he don't cheat us and his rules and restrictions are fair. The day that stops being the case then yeah, as consumers you have the right to get answers to issues. Until that happens though (which I doubt will happen) the only thing ya need to think is god-speed to SR, that's all I think.
And I am guessing that response translates to "Because I have nothing better to do with my time than to gossip about things that don't concern me" then.
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Wiki the 1% rule (90-9-1 rule) and you can gather a pretty good idea of how many people actually use SR. It states that the 1% created the website (give them a hug when you see them, ok?), 9% contribute to the website (all of us chatting away on the forums and who actually have forum accounts), and 90% of those who lurk (the ones who use SR but don't contribute to the forums).
So if there's 23,000 subscribers in the forum, then there's an estimated 2.4 million users who have at one time or another logged onto SR and bought some drugs. That makes us the largest "drug cartel" in the world and probably one of the most diverse communities as well.
Maybe if we could pull resources together we could end this persecution of drug users so we can go about our lives in peace...I will no longer tolerate the back seat of the bus!
...I hope I did this right ::)
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I think everyone pulling together to do anything but buy better drugs is a bad thing. "Movements", no matter how small, will attract more attention to SR. Not to mention that people will obviously always disagree on the sentiment, apart from the distribution of drugs, that's exactly what we're here for. :p
You can empower yourself and the rest of the community by being responsible, considerate, and by buying lots of drugs, nothing else. That's how SR will continue, and become a larger force.
Or maybe I'm talking shit because I'm baked...
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Wiki the 1% rule (90-9-1 rule) and you can gather a pretty good idea of how many people actually use SR. It states that the 1% created the website (give them a hug when you see them, ok?), 9% contribute to the website (all of us chatting away on the forums and who actually have forum accounts), and 90% of those who lurk (the ones who use SR but don't contribute to the forums).
So if there's 23,000 subscribers in the forum, then there's an estimated 2.4 million users who have at one time or another logged onto SR and bought some drugs. That makes us the largest "drug cartel" in the world and probably one of the most diverse communities as well.
Maybe if we could pull resources together we could end this persecution of drug users so we can go about our lives in peace...I will no longer tolerate the back seat of the bus!
...I hope I did this right ::)
Lol....ya didn't
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Wiki the 1% rule (90-9-1 rule) and you can gather a pretty good idea of how many people actually use SR. It states that the 1% created the website (give them a hug when you see them, ok?), 9% contribute to the website (all of us chatting away on the forums and who actually have forum accounts), and 90% of those who lurk (the ones who use SR but don't contribute to the forums).
So if there's 23,000 subscribers in the forum, then there's an estimated 2.4 million users who have at one time or another logged onto SR and bought some drugs. That makes us the largest "drug cartel" in the world and probably one of the most diverse communities as well.
Maybe if we could pull resources together we could end this persecution of drug users so we can go about our lives in peace...I will no longer tolerate the back seat of the bus!
...I hope I did this right ::)
Lol....ya didn't
Yeah I think you got a little too exited there mate :P
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Just a tad...
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Hmm..so someone actually sits around or thinks about these Stats as they ponder themselves to Sleep? Why!!