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Many users come on, post a few times, then we don't see them for months. They post only when they need some advice. The number of users that hand out advice and help to others is far smaller. I just checked the registrations and it is a 250,066. That gives you some idea how many people use this place every day. I can't give you exact statistics, only the Webmaster can.
I was slightly entertained last night reading through some OLD posts in out Chapter forum. I came across some posts from guys who I just recently met and thought they were new to FTE. One of them had been a member since 2001 but just never posted much. I found a thread started by him 2 years ago. He's kind of disappeared and now he's back within the past few weeks and posting there regularly. A lot of them do come back around . . . just takes a while. I suppose some people actually have lives unlike me.
For more fun type your user names into Google and see how many hits you get. I just tried it and got 8,840 hits. The highest I have found recently. I think my previous high was about 6,600. There is some guy on the MSN network that uses the same name but there are not many references to him.