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Svar Beckersted
Registered User
Join date: 14 Apr 2006
Posts: 783
06-13-2006 09:21
Yesterday this number was 256,336. I'll be gone today so could sombody find and ask a Linden what happened to almost 13,000 new residents?
Chris Linden
Program Manager
Join date: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 149
06-13-2006 17:30
Great question!

Internally, we count our total number of residents in a couple of different ways, all for valid reasons. A couple of these different methods are: accounts in good standing, active last 30 days, active last 60 days, etc…

Even accounts in good standing can be counted a few different ways because we have numerous status' accounts can be in, some of which can be confusing as to whether they are "in good standing".

Anyway, to make a long story short, we've decided to tweak what we felt was a better representation of what our current resident count is.

So no, 10,000 residents weren't just eliminated. We now feel they were being improperly counted and adjusted the counter as such. As always, we strive to be as open and honest about our resident count as possible.

Chris