reasons why i have been quiet all this time

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Hmmmmm? Can you give some reasonable examples
of this members abuse? or "are afraid
of what could happen" ?

some of these people you read enough of their posts
and it is almost as if these people become friends
even though that person has no knowledge of your
existence. What would happen if one of these people
that you like decides that he or she does not like you?

It would be like you lost a friend. Some of us just aren't
ready to put ourselves out there.

I'm sure a lot of parents of children with AS come to this
site and register, but then never do anything here once
they realize that this site is more geared toward people
who have AS as opposed to NTs who deal with people with AS.

Nah, I think it has more to do with the asperger's communication problems than with just leaving it alone. I notice that there is a 2 to 1 ratio of vistors to "regulars" and out of the "regulars" another 2 to 1 are actual posters. I suspect most of the "lurkers" are not comfortable enough to post and are afraid of what could happen. This is my theory on why we have so few posters.

No.

No.

No but the content from the wiki has been copied (with permission) from Wikipedia. You can find out more information here.

EDIT: When I answered this, I hadn't read the stuff about other people mentioning the Jypsy site. I think it is appropriate to address this issue. No, we did not copy her content, or even host it. We merely placed an IFRAME link to the internet archive's archive of the page. This was entirely within the bounds of the law. The internet is built upon linking to other content. And we made it clear that this was not our content. However, we removed the link after we were requested to do so by the creator of the content.

We created one "fake" user for testing purposes. The username "testuser" makes it obvious that it is a test user. To get an accurate member count, you can subtract 1 from the number of registered users. These are the only users that WrongPlanet.net created. However, individual users (LGB, who was banned and then came back under a different name, for example) have created more than one identity and I don't really know how many people did this but I can guess that there aren't more than 20 (at the most) duplicate users (although other people could be creating duplicate users). Many of the users who register, however, do not post because they merely like to read the forums. Also, some people register and then leave. There is no way to accurately count active members. Although our numbers are definitely less inflated than the other Asperger's sites I know of because we require users to validate via email (sites like AFF don't do this and thus will have highly (hundreds of) inflated numbers compared to WrongPlanet.net).


I hope this answers your questions. Also, welcome to WrongPlanet.net

And Pikachu, Hey there! I love pokemon and the pokemon metagame! I have all the games and lots of other stuff. Certified pokemaniac, I am.

[quote="Pikachu]
Certified Pokemaniac! Wow!
I'm an uncerified pokemaniac,....

I have other interests too

Computers, mobile phones (cellphones), and radio and tv transmitter masts

as for point #4, I do suspect member numbers are somewhat inflated. by several orders of magnitude, even.

When I first discovered AS I joined several other forums (Yahoo, Delphi, AFF) but most of them either lack content (posts few and far between) or have a general theme and/or tone to the posts that I just don't find enjoyable.

And so say all of us mate...