Does the 1% rule works for everybody ?
The following post by Luke http://www.lukew.com/ff//index.asp makes an interesting point :
"In my Complexity of Simplicity article, I highlighted a few examples where 1-10% of a Web community’s members are responsible for a huge amount of its value. In particular:
YouTube counted 100 million downloads and 65,000 uploads per day: a creator to consumer ratio of just 0.5%.
Just 1.8% of all users write more than 70% of all Wikipedia articles.
The top 100 of digg’s 20 million users are responsible for 56% of the stories on the site’s home page.
Some estimates indicate that eBay does not monetize 90% of their users.
To help paint a clearer picture, are there any other sites that further verify this Consumer/Synthesizer/Creator ratio outlined by Yahoo!’s Bradley Horowitz? If you have any examples, send me a note and I'll add it to the list. Thanks! "
On the site i know of (in the classifieds business for instance) this is quite true with ratios around 1 to 2% between people who create a classifieds and the ones that read them
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