*I notice that there are 1775 artists online here. The maximum number of people in the ContentParadis forums has been 38.

sorry your basis is actually wrong.

lets look at the figures there. 1775 online. for how many forums? Rendo has more forums than just poser. to list a few, there's Photoshop, 3D Max, Lightwave, Bryce, Vue.. so straight off the numbers are split between many subject areas not concerned with Poser at all. then the total users also contains those that are currently browsing the store (CP's forums does not) and duplicate accounts / logins, gallery views and those just to see the front page.

so in actual fact the figures do not compare at all since you are comparing the figures of a sprawling multi subject site with those of a specialist site. it's like comparing a cheese shop to a supermarket.