Message Board Use -- An Observation

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Without commenting one way or the other on the quality of the new message board, it is very interesting to look at the available stats.

While there are notably fewer postings and replies on the message board, the number of views has increased dramatically since the first postings on the new board and in some cases are in the thousands of views.

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Ron, we don't know for a fact the number of views has increased.

I agree, Ron, the observable number of views is interesting--all the moreso since, in many instances, they are more than there are club members. Of course, both you, I, and others access the same thread multiple times. However, as interesting as this number is, and it MAY be correct the number of views has increased, it is incorrect to assert that as fact. We simply don't know because the previous board didn't keep score of eyeballs, or, if it did, didn't report it.

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The numbers don't lie -- or do they?

4,106 views of a thread titled "FS: Brompton travel bag"? 2,351 views of a thread titled "tuesday hill repeats - game off"? I don't think so!

Something is askew with these numbers.

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Something is not working right...

I noticed the same thing when doing my now weekly check-in of the MB (as opposed to 6+ times a day). Looking back in the postings. 11/25 something changed which increased traffic by 10X overnight.

Re: the old site. i would expect the traffice to be higher than show here. i know i have almost stopped using this one.

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