Are we top heavy?

[Katie Wasserman]

(09-23-2015 03:34 PM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  This is, at least partially, the flip side of a discussion we had some time ago about user pruning. Since it annoyed some people, user pruning is currently turned off entirely so it's likely that most of the users will probably rarely if ever post. Some reasons are: accounts created for spamming later (some spammers are now creating accounts years in advance since many anti-spam tools consider account age), accounts created for downloading attachments, accounts created and forgotten, accounts created for selling something (1 or 2 posts then nothing), accounts created to PM someone selling something, accounts created so the new/read post indicators follow them from computer to computer…

I realize this and I think that the percent of user who have never posted is unimportant. I started this thread only to ask people if they thought we were too intimidating to new members. Instead of seeing a lot of RTFM replies on the General forum maybe we should add a Noob (Newbie, New Members, whatever) forum where new members can get a welcoming reply.