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Originally posted by Jim
See, the problem is, you really don't want to use anything that is easy to artificially inflate. As I said, if I were to start a thread where I said, GreenguyandJim will give $$$ to the person that posts in this thread the most, we could easily jump up your list.
Threads are a little more difficult to inflate and views seem to me would be the most difficult. Take a look at your own stats. Look where there are many replies and few threads that are in the top 10. Then take a look at the board and most likely, someone is having a worthless contest of some sort. And some even post in the thread, we are just trying to get our post count up.
I know it is hard to rank as long as almost anything you can tangibly track can be inflated.
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Threads are as easy to inflate as replies if you really wanted to. Offer $$$ for each new thread. So are views.
But what would it give you to inlate your post count, of thread cound or views for that matter in exchange for $$$?
I'll tell you what - losing $$$. That's about it. MAYBE you will be ranked a bit higher in BoardTracker for a while. You know what? If you (I don't mean you personally BTW but rather a general board owner) keep doing that maybe you will be ranked a little higher on BoardTracker for a while longer. But look what happened to boards who did that spam-threads in the past. I don't want to name any, but if you remember the history, you will see that the effect did not last and maybe even was negative.
Does SexTracker rank of TGPs show the quality of a TGP? Of for that matter, the quality of its traffic or effectiveness of advertising on it? No. In fact, it can be easily manipulated as well, even easier than post count on Boards.
But it is still there as a rough "guide" for some measuring scale for whoever cares about that.
Regardless, if you find formulas that you think are much better than simply replies, tell me. We have some ideas for better formulas btw (that we think will negate the influence of occasional spam threads) but we are still testing those ideas.