01-10-2014, 12:01 AM
I'm quite active in an astronomy forum (cloudynights.com), the largest astronomy forum in the states with a large international presence (but a small forum compared to some knitting, woodworking, adventure bike forums) and yet most folks in the hobby are not members and a scary number are not even aware of us. Well, astronomy is not exactly a real social hobby either. 
So folks have to be Internet savy to a certain degree to even consider joining a forum. It certainly helps if you have joined forums before and every time I turn around I bump into folks on forums and yet there is a huge segment out there that either refuses to join or are completely oblivious to them.
I am sure there are more than one graduate research papers that could be written on why folks join forums, why they don't and why they are not aware of them.
Can we make any educated guesses using serial numbers (assuming Honda won't share that info) on how many were built. Sounds like we'll have to treat each market differently and add the results.
So folks have to be Internet savy to a certain degree to even consider joining a forum. It certainly helps if you have joined forums before and every time I turn around I bump into folks on forums and yet there is a huge segment out there that either refuses to join or are completely oblivious to them.
I am sure there are more than one graduate research papers that could be written on why folks join forums, why they don't and why they are not aware of them.
Can we make any educated guesses using serial numbers (assuming Honda won't share that info) on how many were built. Sounds like we'll have to treat each market differently and add the results.