Message board traffic

[tornado]

What are you talking about?
How can it not be equally applied....I simply counted the basketball topics and threads...exact counts....

And I used the exact same criteria on each message board I counted....I went there, pulled up the basketball posts and counted them one by one...going back one day, then two days, then all the way to July 1st.
It's easy to do as virtually all those message boards actually do the whole thing FOR YOU

Here on BradleyFans....look at the bottom of the page when it displays the topics, and it allows you to view the posts from just the past day, week, etc...
See...the message board computers actually do most of the counts for you.
All I did was eliminate the posts that had NOTHING to do with basketball like the ones on poker and Paris Hilton!

Again...the data is absolutely as accurate as anyone can make it, and I posted my counts for anyone who wants to agree/disagree/or opine, and even qualified it with the age-old "FWIW" just so nobody thinks I am trying to cram my opinions down anyone throat!
.......But if it shows some message boards as being pretty much dead, and no interesting discussion about basketball, then don't take it personally.

[DUBulldog]

PTTB-
That website you linked is completely bogus, and I have no idea where they get their data or
how current it is. But for BradleyFans, they claim we get little or no traffic. Who are they kidding?
I guarantee we are not only the busiest Valley board, we are way busier than most of the Big Ten or Big XII Rivals and scout boards.

Here-- see if you think these boards are even 1/10 as busy a BradleyFans.

Iowa Rivals - only about 20 new posts since the first of the month:

http://iowa.rivals.com/forum.asp?sid=940&fid=803

Iowa State Rivals - ONLY ONE new post in the last 12 days!!!!
http://iowastate.rivals.com/forum.asp?sid=916&fid=89

T......I'd like to point out that while it's true that there are very few posts on the FREE Rivals.com boards for those schools, there is a tremendous amount of activity on the "premium" boards. I'm guessing the same is true for schools like Ohio State, Wisconsin, etc.

There are also other boards for both of those schools, including www.hawkeyenation.com and www.cyclonefanatic.com. I only recently discovered cyclonefanatic.com, and there is a lot of basketball discussion there on a regular basis.

I'm not trying to discount Bradleyfans.com at all, I really enjoy the discussion....just pointing out that some of these other schools do have busier boards than you might realize.

[Chico]

I'll be out of state for 2 months after this morning, without a computer. I know I'll miss this board more than anything else. I will have a lot of catching up to do and hopefully some great recruiting news, if it can be any better. Keep up the good work everybody.

[IheartBU]

I'll be out of state for 2 months after this morning, without a computer. I know I'll miss this board more than anything else. I will have a lot of catching up to do and hopefully some great recruiting news, if it can be any better. Keep up the good work everybody.

Safe travels, Chico ... just think how much fun stuff there will be to read when you get back!

[mike radigan]

I'll be out of state for 2 months after this morning, without a computer.

Chico, libraries.

[tornado]

I'll be out of state for 2 months after this morning, without a computer. I know I'll miss this board more than anything else. I will have a lot of catching up to do and hopefully some great recruiting news, if it can be any better. Keep up the good work everybody.

Chico...no matter where you go, and no matter how remote...
seems someone still offers access to the internet.
Just find a place from time to time and chime in!

[MacabreMob]

What are you talking about?
How can it not be equally applied....I simply counted the basketball topics and threads...exact counts....

And I used the exact same criteria on each message board I counted....I went there, pulled up the basketball posts and counted them one by one...going back one day, then two days, then all the way to July 1st.
It's easy to do as virtually all those message boards actually do the whole thing FOR YOU

Here on BradleyFans....look at the bottom of the page when it displays the topics, and it allows you to view the posts from just the past day, week, etc...
See...the message board computers actually do most of the counts for you.
All I did was eliminate the posts that had NOTHING to do with basketball like the ones on poker and Paris Hilton!

Again...the data is absolutely as accurate as anyone can make it, and I posted my counts for anyone who wants to agree/disagree/or opine, and even qualified it with the age-old "FWIW" just so nobody thinks I am trying to cram my opinions down anyone throat!
.......But if it shows some message boards as being pretty much dead, and no interesting discussion about basketball, then don't take it personally.

Haha... this was some funny stuff to read.

Listen, though T... squirrels are people too... they have feelings too.. and with Squirrel's 6.71 posts per day at another board you referenced... I think you hurt his feelings.

[amckillip]

What are you talking about?
How can it not be equally applied....I simply counted the basketball topics and threads...exact counts....

And I used the exact same criteria on each message board I counted....I went there, pulled up the basketball posts and counted them one by one...going back one day, then two days, then all the way to July 1st.
It's easy to do as virtually all those message boards actually do the whole thing FOR YOU

Here on BradleyFans....look at the bottom of the page when it displays the topics, and it allows you to view the posts from just the past day, week, etc...
See...the message board computers actually do most of the counts for you.
All I did was eliminate the posts that had NOTHING to do with basketball like the ones on poker and Paris Hilton!

Again...the data is absolutely as accurate as anyone can make it, and I posted my counts for anyone who wants to agree/disagree/or opine, and even qualified it with the age-old "FWIW" just so nobody thinks I am trying to cram my opinions down anyone throat!
.......But if it shows some message boards as being pretty much dead, and no interesting discussion about basketball, then don't take it personally.

I am very crtitical of statistics, because I understand them and know how they can be manipulated. But what T did would be by far the most accurate way to measure REAL, traffic. Sorry, in this day and age page views can be very misleading. Bots and other factors completely skew those. Squirrel I understand what you're saying, but fact of the matter is, this season BU has a lot of changes, and therefore interesting information, so we have a lot more traffic and news than others, and then some is truly that we may be more popular than other boards.

[MacabreMob]

What are you talking about?
How can it not be equally applied....I simply counted the basketball topics and threads...exact counts....

And I used the exact same criteria on each message board I counted....I went there, pulled up the basketball posts and counted them one by one...going back one day, then two days, then all the way to July 1st.
It's easy to do as virtually all those message boards actually do the whole thing FOR YOU

Here on BradleyFans....look at the bottom of the page when it displays the topics, and it allows you to view the posts from just the past day, week, etc...
See...the message board computers actually do most of the counts for you.
All I did was eliminate the posts that had NOTHING to do with basketball like the ones on poker and Paris Hilton!

Again...the data is absolutely as accurate as anyone can make it, and I posted my counts for anyone who wants to agree/disagree/or opine, and even qualified it with the age-old "FWIW" just so nobody thinks I am trying to cram my opinions down anyone throat!
.......But if it shows some message boards as being pretty much dead, and no interesting discussion about basketball, then don't take it personally.

I am very crtitical of statistics, because I understand them and know how they can be manipulated. But what T did would be by far the most accurate way to measure REAL, traffic. Sorry, in this day and age page views can be very misleading. Bots and other factors completely skew those. Squirrel I understand what you're saying, but fact of the matter is, this season BU has a lot of changes, and therefore interesting information, so we have a lot more traffic and news than others, and then some is truly that we may be more popular than other boards.

This is where a lot of denial might lie.

HERE

Lie: to have a place in relation to something else

NOT

Lie: to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive; to create a false or misleading impression