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<b>Birthday-bashers will have something extra to celebrate</b> Almost exactly eight years to the day since snowHeads was set up on 5 February 2004, the same month as Facebook, the UK's biggest snowsports forum is poised to celebrate the registration of its 30,000th member ...This week, around 60 snowHeads are in Arabba, in the Dolomites, for the S8BB – otherwise known as the snowHeads eighth birthday bash – the 2012 edition of one of the site's annual Alpine get-togethers. This is one of half a dozen annual trips to the mountains now organised for and by snowHeads.
As I write, the tally of registered snowHeads is 29,848, and the number of posts is approaching two million. The greatest number online at once is 490, in December 2011. People who aren't registered can see most of the content, but to post you need to be registered. Registration is free.
With apologies to the thousands of snowHeads who already know the story, snowHeads was set up by Graham MacMahon (aka admin), a keen skier, after the internet forum of the Ski Club of Great Britain was closed down to non-Ski Club members in February 2004. Wanting to stay in cyber-touch with the community he had “met” on the site, MacMahon set up SnowHeads overnight and learnt how to run an internet forum as he went. Its tally of users has climbed steadily ever since.
SnowHeads is – to our knowledge – the biggest English-language internet ski forum in Europe. In the US, Epicski.com has about 35,500 members and Tetongravity.com has about 90,500. In France, skipass.com has about 73,300.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Congratulations.
Facebook has captured roughly 12% of the world's population.
SnowHeads has captured roughly 1% of the world's ski and board population.
Plenty of scope for growth.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Congrats Graham,
Thanks for all your hard work and effort.
Everyone spread the word.
One day i will pluck up the courage to go on a SHB.
Not sure i could keep up, 20 ski trips with lots of beer but feel lightweight compared to some of the 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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SnowNewsHound, Just think of the advertising possibilities? O look right somebody has.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
SnowHeads has captured roughly 1% of the world's ski and board population.
Plenty of scope for growth. |
And more scope for maths lessons, try 0.06% based on there being maybe 50m who claim to be skiers or boarders.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
SnowHeads has captured roughly 1% of the world's ski and board population.
Plenty of scope for growth. |
And more scope for maths lessons, try 0.06% based on there being maybe 50m who claim to be skiers or boarders. |
You round to two points.
I round to none.
Get used to it, son.
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Now, talking of internet trolls...... 
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Whitegold, if you could do the same next time you take headache pills that would be great.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Whitegold, rounded to none it comes out at.... 0%
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snowball,  Excellent, I just thought it was my dodgy maths!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| snowball wrote: |
| Whitegold, rounded to none it comes out at.... 0% |
If you round up to the nearest non-zero number, it is 1%.
Furthermore, note the use of the word "roughly". Twice.
You dudes need reading reading lessons and a dictionary 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Whitegold, "roughly" means 97 is roughly a hundred.
My 0.06% is not roughly 1%... you are out by a multiple of 16 (roughly)
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off topic already, quick even by SH's standards
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You know it makes sense.
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0.06% is roughly bugger all. Which leaves a lot of scope for expansion.
Around 4000 members have submitted more than 10 posts
About 18000 members have submitted 1 or less post. Of those 55% have submitted a single post pimping their alpine business.
Around 5% of members are active.
Roughly 10,000 members have sock puppets
ok I made some of that up.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just to add the 4000 members with ten or more posts was quite impressive I thought.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Instead of all this bollock$ can I just say Thanks.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Smokin Joe, and in turn thanks to you for the laminated ski trip packing checklist.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| Smokin Joe, and in turn thanks to you for the laminated ski trip packing checklist. |
Your very welcome
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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30,000? What's the sockpuppet ratio?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Snowheads is to skiing what Top Gear is to cars.
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What's the spammer registration ratio? I guess we'll have 30k by tomorrow once the overnight spammers register
Nevertheless, thanks admin
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| davidof wrote: |
0.06% is roughly bugger all. Which leaves a lot of scope for expansion.
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Or to put it another way, if 0.1% = bugger all, then 0.06% = three-fifths of bugger all. (I often like to use that phrase!) 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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holidayloverxx, at the moment Admin's anti-spam measures are holding up pretty well, It's been weeks since I've had to zap a spammer.
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nbt, excellent
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| PJSki wrote: |
| 30,000? What's the sockpuppet ratio? |
I have 5 I think... most only used for 1 post...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I have 5 I think...
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Crikey, I'd better get on and knit some more
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That's interesting, I was talking to a friend who's a moderator on another forum where they customarily use posting bans for bad behaviour - swearing, sexism, insults etc, length of ban varying depending on degree of offence. He'd just slapped a two week ban on someone for opening a second account as it's stricly against their rules...
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You know it makes sense.
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nbt, sounds like a sensible idea.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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May I just say how happy I am to join you bunch of stirring bombardino swilling sociopaths on planks...
... and a close friend of mine has just made his 15,000th proper post too....!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes I am number 30000,
I peaked a bit early, whoops.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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with user ID 38194
Not all of those 8194 were spammers. Some were real users. One of them was the other me.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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edit: make that 38164 / 8164
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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andy, Like the tag line. Not a mac fan then?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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| nbt wrote: |
| That's interesting, I was talking to a friend who's a moderator on another forum where they customarily use posting bans for bad behaviour - swearing, sexism, insults etc, length of ban varying depending on degree of offence. He'd just slapped a two week ban on someone for opening a second account as it's stricly against their rules... |
sounds like j2ski.com
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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nbt, davidof, Do we have a higher class of sockpuppet than J2ski then?
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Schuss in Boots, Same one's
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FAQ
to the rest of ya.. 