to a good extent because they are active members of the community. In all liklihood, the 15 or so editors are part of the 20 most active members, and they participate to most conversations.

We have a couple thousand people that registered as members, but probably 50-ish regular contributors and a hundred or so occasional posters, and probably a few hundred regular readers.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes