FAQ
Q: Why don’t you have more forums?
A: We’re going to add more. We just started with these 15.
Q: The bottom of the forum page says that such-and-such forum has X number of posts and you say they only have Y number? What’s up?
A: This is EXTREMELY important. Do not email us with this question — we won’t respond. We use a number of different techniques to make sure we have the correct number of visible posts, threads, etc. One of our methods is to use the actual forum listing instead of the number at the bottom of the forums. Our reasons for doing this are many, but we feel it will give us the most accurate number the major of the time. Therefore, you won’t see the total number as reported in the footer of the forum posted on Poker Forum Traffic.
Q: What’s T/day? What’s P/day?
A: Threads per day and posts per day.
Q: What’s traffic?
A: As of April 29th, 2008, we only calculate traffic for some forums. However, the traffic number represents the average total users (both members and guests) as reported by the forum page itself. We believe that sites have different criteria for what makes a user “active” so, therefore, we do not really consider the traffic number to be of great significance. We simply report it because it is there and people can interpret it as they wish.
Q: Whoooooa such-and-such forum has a TON of [something], what’s going on?
A: That’s actually probably a bug. We’re working on it. This site launched in late April of 2008, so things are still new around here. You might see some crazy numbers if things go wrong in our database. But everything is fixable so just be patient.
Q: Your numbers are wrong. This site sucks.
A: That isn’t a question. But to address the numbers issue, we use automated bots to grab the information. I’m 100% sure that our bot knows how to add up numbers correctly. Howevvvvver, it is possible that something went wrong with the bot. If you tell us specifically what is wrong and why you believe it to be wrong, we’ll look into it.
Q: Such-and-such forum has archived/pruned/deleted/etc posts. Can they get added back in?
A: No. That’s why we use “posts per day” as our primary ranking indicator. It’s pretty consistent day after day. It also doesn’t matter what has happened in the past. The “posts” and “threads” columns aren’t really important to anything. Like the “members” and “traffic” columns, we just show it’s because it’s there. Threads per day and posts per day are a much better indicator of forum traffic in our opinion.
Q: But such-and-such forum has private or password-protected forums that can’t be seen unless you login! Those aren’t being counted correctly. Can that be fixed?
A: We are actively working on that issue. We hope to refine our bot and let it login to forums so it can see the hidden forums.
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