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Originally Posted by bedir than average
If I tell you the test is about viewership vs. the reluctance of current posters to post in sections without their favorite title don't you think I know those metrics?
Grandstander, I am truly interested in your theory as to why a poster would refuse to post on a topic due to its location
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I do not understand why you are adopting a combative, confrontational stance with this. Have you given no thought at all to the way posters react to these moves? It's as though you are in a harmeless area, having a harmeless discussion, and some authority figure comes along and insists that the conversation take place elsewhere....and doesn't provide you with any sort of reasonable explanation as to why it needs to take place elsewhere. It comes across as hasslin' folks for the sake of hasslin' them. Anyway, it does to me.
There is a point of diminishing returns at work....I check the BBQ each time I am online and typically I am rewarded by finding one or more threads which I wish to read or in which I have been participating and now have a response to make. That reward isn't present when you fragment the boards and one must check multiple places.
If I am a particpant in three threads on the BBQ, I am motivated to check the BBQ for responses. If you splinter the three threads to three different boards, I am less likely to be checking because now it is just one thread of interest and I am less likely to be rewarded by discovering a response. After going there x number of times and finding nothing new, I tend to not go there any longer...and the thread dies because everyone is like me, they don't want to waste time checking on something which isn't likely to reward them.
That's why fragmentation kills threads.
If posters were happy about these new arrangements, why does this thread full of complaints exist?