It is possible their primary reason for joining was to use this as a dating site ,and found there are married members like me and others who had no intention of joining for this purpose

I don’t see it as a big problem that there is a large number of inactive members still registered. Some come and go and post intermittently, not everyone posts constantly because they have lives to live offsite. I have no experience with any other sites, Christian or otherwise, therefore I have nothing to compare this one with, however I find that when I do log on here there are usually quite a number of alerts to respond to and plenty of new posts to browse, enough for me anyway! Perhaps my expectations are lower than yours, and certainly I’m not here for dating, that wouldn’t have been a fruitful exercise living thousands of miles away on the other side of the Atlantic from the majority of fellow members. In short..I see no problem and therefore I see no need to find a solution.

once the level of disbelief is reached it is difficult to see the angst of those still rehashing the issue.... I came here for a different atmosphere but find many are still grousing about that which we say is behind us... I am often thinking about whether I should hang around much longer....trying to get myself to T-shirt level....

IMO.

Disregarding many of the comments which have been made about you bitching unnecessarily, I agree with you. It does seem like Agnostic.com misses out on a large part of the market they could capture and hold.

I suspect humanist. com and agnostic.com would do better if they didn't spearhead these sites as dating sites. It seems like many people here came here for dating, but end up leaving because there are not enough matches within there proximity. This website is unable to retain it's market share likely because of this.

If I were King for the day I would change these two sites dramatically. The reason for this is because the success of these sites can have an adverse, and positive, affect on the strengthening of an atheist movement.

I would still maintain the sites' dating features, but they would get a backseat. These sites would be all about community.

For example; the home page would have regularly changed news articles pertaining to the secular world.

Also on the home page there would be links to articles and memes with the most likes from the previous month.

Also, every month put the pictures of members who received there free T shirt for reaching level 8.

What could be done to promote this site without making major changes to it's coding is an unending supply of creative solutions. So in my opinion, it comes down to admin. If you want to make this site reach its potential and make a difference in this world, then you have to have admin recognize they are wasting an opportunity and they are responsible for this site's market share. They are the owners of this site's successes and its current failure in market share and retention.

There's no problem, here. You are not fit to demand something be done about our collective behavior. The solution to your personal crisis on the matter is to stop worrying about what other people should be doing.

New here. A bit about my philosophy. I am a humanist believing that every person is a god unto themselves as the guardians of this wonderful planet we inhabit. I am of the firm belief that we are supposed to care for all the other living and breathing things that exist with compassion and love. We as a race have immense capability and do no use the power we wield as we should and there should be more emphasis on unification around the world instead of this gosh awful segregation spread by so many people of power so they can usurp this earth out of greed from everyone and everything that does not have the power to rebel against it.

I don't see a problem and I think any solution would be a problem.

Every site has that problem, every local organization as well. "Meetup" actual participation is considered "excellent" at .02%, for example

I am surprised that the percentage is that low, but it is fairly common, I believe for no more than 10%, often only 4-5% of members of n organization to "carry" it.

I imagine most of the Christian sites are self-congratulatory and the debates are around where Jesus bought his sandals.

Here we argue many points and ask posters to support their claims.

Some guys don’t like to be called out on their incorrect knowledge or deliberate nonsense.

Besides that many seem to join up to date. Don’t know how successful that part is but from some posts I’ve read, not the greatest.

It is what it is.... I don't know that I would call it a problem and I don't see any likely solution in the future. I think what happens with most of the inactive members is that they come here hoping for real dating options with other members in their local area, see that there aren't any, and then just leave the site for good, instead of staying, becoming active, and trying to enjoy the discussion and community available here. I don't see any of that changing with most of the people who try this site until the membership becomes large enough to offer local dating options for most members. And that is not going to happen without the site doing a lot more advertising on FB or other media, which would cost more than the site's owner could afford or at least be expected to spend for that.

got 2 eyes, 2 ears, and one mouth... more info should come in than go out.

for me its getting a bit stale and samey.

I scan through the pages on occasion, I am kind of busy with my life. Why do you want to regulate who can be on this page ?

I suspect it's that relatively esoteric word "agnostic." People join, find out what it means, throw their hands over their heads and run screaming into the night, never to return.

The second factor is lurkers (the people who read, don't post/reply) make up about 95% of the people on social media. Generally speaking, people hate to write.

Third factor is sometimes I join relatively active groups that never send me an update. I have to browse groups to see the updates in them. The software upkeep is a tad flakey at times.

Lastly, as a dating app this place is filled with AARP members. That ought to make most guys looking for hot babes throw their hands over their heads and run screaming into the night, never to return. Great grandmothers looking for love and dam picky about it, well, need I draw a picture?

I would imagine the users are probably of a high education level on average, and probably comment as and when they have something useful to say, and that usually means interests them.I would say 1% usage is not to be unexpected under those conditions.
How do we increase it? Unless we produce thought provoking input..................we don't !

Just what we need, more rules. Not.

What can be done about inactive members? IDK. How are we measuring their inactivity? Do you have to post to be active?

I have one friend here. No one gives a care. Multiple posts and out reach messages. I'm not ugly or stupid. The solution? There is no solution.

I think a lot of people just read the posting, and maybe join groups. I read and post. Have the same problem at AR, a lot of people read, but only a few post.

Why do anything

A lot of the problem is the rehashing of the same old shit. I get tired of seeing the same old drool being brought up again and again with the same results, as an example, I didn't realize how many versions of pascal wages there was, however, it's just the same old shit presented in a new package.
A lot of times I just roll my I eyes and move on. My take on it.

I would say that 1,000 active users is an understatement, for every person that posts there are a dozen more who just like to read the posts and occasionally react with a like or a smiley face. If the Crazy Christians have so much to say then perhaps it is because they are so thoroughly confused about everything in the first place. Letting Crazy Christians run amok on our site might stir things up but not in a good way, let them blather amongst themselves, I for one do not need to hear it.

Why is it your problem. Or indeed any of your business? Maybe they fell in love, or are in the hospital, or just busy.....

isn't that every members right? why does it matter?