I found this site by some form of accident; it may have been a web search, I do not know.

I looked at what I considered to be a somewhat superficial hierarchial ranking of registered 'visitors'. I didn't understand it fully but went along with it anyway not realising how much one's presence might have upon the site.

Two things are important to note:
a) Nobody needs to know anything about you if you post puzzles or make comments upon them
b) Chatterbox is a Forum, but not in the expected sense of it being a chatroom.

However, registered visitors are likely 'put off' by some aspects of the site.

Without 'nit-picking', the "newbie" forum might be made more "intro friendly" - like, give radio button options to FAQ's (might minimise 'waz up' type comments.

And, just maybe, that stat of some 13000+ registered users, might become a more realistic number of valid registrations (rather than 'fly-by-night').

Doubt that even if those of us remaining as regulars were to pay Levik our $10 to remove pop-ups, we would buy any significant part of "killing that cookie", or whatever initiates the popup window.

This site would appear to be unique in how it attempts to gather together a forum of interest, but then disseminates a range of priveleges to interested persons for the daily management of the site.

Qu: What % of the 13000 are "faithful come back again"?

I think about a guy who wanted company, but his email address was faulty!!