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Park Slope Parents charging for a list serve? Give me a brea - Page 5 — Brooklynian

Park Slope Parents charging for a list serve? Give me a brea

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  • danh
    danh
    willregistersoon wrote: Does anyone know if any of the free upstarts have picked up steam? We're among those who were members on the free version and are not paying for the new one.
    Brooklyn Parents Network now has almost 600 members and is very active:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BrooklynParentsNetwork/

    BoCoCa has been around for a very long time and is more active than ever before.
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bococa_parents/

    anyone who says PSP has just as many post as it used to is seriously delusional. You don't have to be a member to know that. Look at their stats on yahoo. THey tell you how many post in the last 7 days and by month. They're on pace to drop by 75%. Close to what they dropped in members. Simple math. Soon the people who paid $25 will be pissed and start posting their stuff elsewhere too.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    ^I take it your only reason for posting here on this board is to promote those other boards and to put down PSP? Nice! I paid my $25 and am far from unhappy with the board, and since you are not on the board, you really have no way of commenting.
  • eggcream
    eggcream
    danh wrote: [quote=willregistersoon]Does anyone know if any of the free upstarts have picked up steam? We're among those who were members on the free version and are not paying for the new one.
    Brooklyn Parents Network now has almost 600 members and is very active:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BrooklynParentsNetwork/

    BoCoCa has been around for a very long time and is more active than ever before.
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bococa_parents/

    anyone who says PSP has just as many post as it used to is seriously delusional. You don't have to be a member to know that. Look at their stats on yahoo. THey tell you how many post in the last 7 days and by month. They're on pace to drop by 75%. Close to what they dropped in members. Simple math. Soon the people who paid $25 will be pissed and start posting their stuff elsewhere too.

    Gee Dan, could be lots of people are away on vacation. That said, it's juvenile to come here just to bash the PSP. Hope your kids behave better than their Dad.
  • jamzer
    jamzer
    danh wrote: .....They're on pace to drop by 75%. Close to what they dropped in members. Simple math.
    Maybe not so simple math for you after all. Posts in June (the first full month of it being a paid subscription group) were down 20% from May. Some of the decline could be driven in part by the fact that members who had paid after the May 15th deadline had to wait a couple of weeks to be reinstated due to limitations that Yahoo puts on the number of members that can be added to a group in a day. Overall, posts in June are down 27% from the average number of posts over the last couple of years. You seem to have made up the 75% number.

    I expect the number of posts to be down now that they charge, but it will be nowhere near in proportion to the decline in members since the people that contribute the most and participate in the discussions are going to cough up the $25 and a lot of the drop-off in members were duplicate accounts or non-participants anyway.

    As I've said before, God speed to the folks trying to start up the free services for parents. I wish them luck. I for one think that the people who run the PSP list have created a useful service that is worth $25.
  • danh
    danh
    Jamzer wrote: [quote=danh].....They're on pace to drop by 75%. Close to what they dropped in members. Simple math.
    Maybe not so simple math for you after all. Posts in June (the first full month of it being a paid subscription group) were down 20% from May. Some of the decline could be driven in part by the fact that members who had paid after the May 15th deadline had to wait a couple of weeks to be reinstated due to limitations that Yahoo puts on the number of members that can be added to a group in a day. Overall, posts in June are down 27% from the average number of posts over the last couple of years. You seem to have made up the 75% number.

    I expect the number of posts to be down now that they charge, but it will be nowhere near in proportion to the decline in members since the people that contribute the most and participate in the discussions are going to cough up the $25 and a lot of the drop-off in members were duplicate accounts or non-participants anyway.

    As I've said before, God speed to the folks trying to start up the free services for parents. I wish them luck. I for one think that the people who run the PSP list have created a useful service that is worth $25.

    They cut people off June 15th.
  • pokersloper
    pokersloper
    I am a member of the Park Slope parent group but have chosen not to pay to continue belonging to the e-group. But we may rejoin.

    I understand why they want to charge. Charging a fee helps to deplete the troll-like postings and helps prevent people from joining and posting who are more interested in selling products and stirring things up then talking with parents. Also, by paying a fee, a person is more likely to take the group seriously and to take the discussions seriously. Sure the group is snotty and silly at times, but the service it offers is pretty great, perhaps because they did it before anyone else. Trying to get everyone to move to a different e-group never really works.
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