New members join PCF every day.
Perhaps it's a bit more obvious to e-lite and I, because we need to manually approve their first threads and posts.
From what I hear ingame, there also seems to be quite a pool of players who read this forum fairly regularly but don't feel feel the need to contribute.
I think that's fairly normal. For example, I belong to a couple of other forums (on RL matters).
While I browse new topics several times a week for articles that are particularly relevant to me personally, it's pretty rare for me to post there.
The
1% rule says that 'only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk', and I think that would be applicable here on PCF.
There's usually some trigger that encourages someone to make their
first post.
Very few just 'introduce' themselves in the N00bs Corner.
Some will make their first post either posting a bid on some Selling thread, or post their own Selling thread for some uncommon item of loot.
Quite a few will start with registering in one of the threads in the Event section though, so we keep a particular eye out for new posts in those threads.