If you've ever chosen a collection of numbers from, say, ...
230500 to 230560 (just a random choice. n less than 800,000 or so through n+60 or so.)
and (while logged out ;) ) had a look to see what the distribution of profiles at
http://www.cherrytap.com/user/n is in that range...
the number of profiles that look to have been abandoned before they were half-started- with no photos or with 1 or 2 points at most, etc. - is even higher than - well, than I for one would have expected...
and I was expecting a pretty high percentage of early-defunct, nonstarter, try-out profiles. (Add in the profiles
created by current users for no other purpose than to annoy other people and then stand stagnant- freshmeat duplicates- and one has even more.)
I am guessing that people who aren't greeted very soon, effectively, don't see their level raise fairly quickly (why? not points for the sake of blasted points. Read the rules, at
http://cherrytap.com/bible.php
which lay out the differences between levels and what you need to get to them, if you haven't, yet.. What can you do as a fresher here? Not really all that much, comparatively.)
So - with the current imperfect change (a further note on which down the blog btw) - zee newbeastie can join zee mainstream of zee CherryTap societaet more quickly, ja? (Pardon, bad imitation.)
About this making the alerts fall of the bottom of the myalerts.php more quickly- yes. But at least they're on the denser, expected to be verra full, right side of the page, with the photos and stashes updateses, rightses?;
not the left side, which I at least concentrate on - usually, not always - a bit more keenly - for reasons divers 'n' sundr'.
Best!! ;)