Hallo Renee!
Hmm... still wish there was an ability to quote text...
Firstly, thank you very much for your feedback on frauenweb! What you have seen so far are only the 3 open-to-all boards. There are 23 women-only boards which are like what you suggested - places for discussion on mostly feminist topics, but also stuff like sports & fitness or jobs, etc... What we do is we check the identity of users by phone call before we give them access to these boards. Which are therefore a very sheltered place - this is why I thought people would be more active in the first place.
You are right the "gegenschwarzblau" forum is a not really a discussion forum but an information forum - this was added only recently to help spread information about the current political situation in Austria. The only "discussion" posts we had there were from anonymous posters who were threatening us(!) - which is why there is the "protest" account the password of which is known to everybody with access to the women-only forums so everybody can post information without having to give their real login name and still make the post more "official looking" than just posting as anonymous.
So, I'm still curious - how big are the average userbases and lurker/active ratios?
Eg. in our most active forum there were (since 1.1.2000):
68 posts by us 2 admins, 40 posts by 8 other users
31 threads started by admins, 6 by users
out of a total of 115 users who have a high enough level to access the women-only boards.
bye, tina
