[OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

[mick]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:00:46 +0200
Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org> wrote:

> Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's 
> map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits. 
> Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an 
> avatar picture) but then did not use their account for anything - no 
> edits, no traces, nothing.Why ? Are these mere spam registrations or are 
> we actually losing good potential mappers in the first hours of their 
> life as Openstreetmap users ? How many of them do we have ? Do we have 
> logs that we can analyze to understand how they came to Openstreetmapand 
> how they dropped out ?
> 

In MY case it is a matter of joining to show support firstly, to be sure of access to the full range of features (might not have been necessary) secondly and to feed in the results of my research and mapping when it reaches a suitable level of accuracy. This work is taking an order of magnitude more time than my initial guesstimate. 

Mick
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