Deception at online.degree.net

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Those few posts are generally from the same handful of posters, hard to believe since they list 2938 members, almost all of whom have either 0 or 1 post.

Sorry if I offend you, but: welcome to the world of the internet!
About time you understood how it works...
Registered users mean little: they can easily be faked by some 'go up one/make up one every minute' script...or (as in most cases it is) be junk members registered to peddle viagra, replica rolex, porn etc...
The rest are uninterested lurkers or gregarious morons ready to do anything to be initiated into the 'secret society' that dominates the forum.

I knew of another once famous site where the owner and the super-moderator (whom I believe were the SAME person ) accounted alone for 45% of the total posts.
The vast majority of fora are -upon closer inspection- run or populated by the usual bunch of people, maybe using different aliases as I had the chances to forensically document in the past; in one case one mental case ran five parallel aliases with conflicting personalities.
Forget the backdrop of dead usernames, spammers and the few lurkers and gregarious people.

Among the cliques that dominate most conventional fora (forget 'wild west' chat rooms and generic sites swamped with dumb teens trying to look cocky ), the core members typically throw up posts BY THE THOUSANDS...
I read 'post per day average' of 30, 50...even 200...needless to say these psychotherapy candidates are also the ones who use the 'get a life'/'I got a life' punchline...
Since 2002 I may have contributed say around 4000 posts, counting ALL websites I ever joined...some of them post 4000 times in one year on ONE site.
The typical person  who is a zero in real life, the butt of all jokes among his friends, who turns post-a-holic and cocky sheriff in town online...

The internet IS the realm of the fake, the distorted, the janitor turned principal and the burger flipping guy turned neurosurgeon...where the butt of all jokes in town can serve justice like a Scwarzenegger movie character...
PFFT!