1% rule (Internet culture) - "only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk"

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[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Variants include the 1–9–90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content.

I find this here on saidit too. 90% only lurk without logging in, maybe 10% login in with their usernames, and maybe 1% actually vote or comment or post. We get 20k unique visitors on an average day, and about 4000 comments per day, and 500 posts per day (made by about 200 users). So that's 1%, the rule holds!

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Those are some interesting statistics! They're also roughly equivalent to YouTube's statistics too. Most YouTube watch time referral activity is generated from outside of YouTube. I'd be curious to know what Reddit's viewer to lurker ratio would be.

Then again, only around 1% of YouTubers (not including TV and music of course) generate most of the legitimate traffic there.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These numbers have been roughly these numbers probably throughout the history of civilization, and certainly throughout the history of the internet, as long as I’ve been online.

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a lot of time i use youtube but don't log in, because something about their broken app makes me need to log in and go to a website and acttivate way too much, I wonder if certain sites are broken like this and people would log if they didn't make it a hassle. this leads to me not making any comments or liking or subscribing on YT which it seems like all the content creators want so it hurts them.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup.