we built a crazy active local niche site, around 13k members, ~99% real, 80% are active past 30days, 50% visit daily, 1.7m pageviews a month, avg user session is 19mins. i meet people in public who suggest i join my own site. anyhow, we are running a very modified 'dolphin-stein' versions of 7.2 with a ton of open source components ported in. we are working on porting out our custom mods and changes and should be posting them here in the near future.
Indeed, while some community sites might be prepared to populate their database with 'fake' profiles, quality members is more important than quantity, for content-based sites.
We're interested in members who add content and value to the community; sharing their local knowledge with visitors, while encouraging others to add to our online travel guides with genuine recommendations.
I plan to publish "1000 to 10,000" and then "10,000 to 100,000" posts in near future, so any input on that would also be very much appreciated.
We're interested in members who add content and value to the community; sharing their local knowledge with visitors, while encouraging others to add to our online travel guides with genuine recommendations.