Such trends are magnified and appear larger than they are. Not just with messageboards but with anything where there are "transactions".
If Serge takes a day off for example, the board loses his 25 posts. The board also loses all the responses to his posts and then all the responses to those posts, etc. There is a multiplier. Every post made by Serge, Mike, CJ, Peaches or anyone else creates x responses on average.
Same thing with the economy and even circle-jerk and TGP sites.
If a new $1million is added into the economy there is a multiplier which is how many times that $1 million is spent. When taxes are cut, for example, that money is added back into the economy as a multiplier depending on how often it is spent. Economists argue over where and how to input that money to get the best multiplier.
If someone takes 10,000 search engine hits into their TGP, those people go clicking around some number of times. Maybe 3.5x on average. I have no idea. So 10,000 search engine visitors pushed into the network of TGP sites might create 35,000 visitors over the whole system.
Last edited by Colin at May 28 2003, 09:28 AM
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