Really? How many users perform any writes monthly?

I only see a couple thousand people actively comment or vote.

The usual ratio is pretty crazy, like 99 to 1.

The way I've usually seen it states is that 10% of your users will comment, and 10% of that 10% will start new threads/posts.

Easier to just say 10% comment, 1% posts.

That describes my usage pretty well. Dang, no comments from me on the next 9 articles.

Can't comment on 9 in an hour anyways. You get rate-limited on HN. :)

I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!

Yeah, I lurk and comment on here far too much.

why should I comment when everyone just downvotes me.

People don't downvote for no reason, especially not on HN.

The 1% rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule?wprov=sfla1

Thank you for sharing this, dang!

Any stats you can share on registered user engagement?

I'd love to see a breakdown or writeup on this subject in general.

Hasn’t a significant amount of those users only started here in the past several months? Someone shared a chart a while back and it was striking.

Bots gonna bot

Not the case, no.

I don't recall seeing that chart - if anyone can link me to it I'd be interested in taking a look.

how do you distinguish bots and real users?