A bit of daft research on forums and my reviews

[profbeard]

Well it was fun, but I don't know if I've learnt anything!

See:

ukvapers.com/blog/9/entry-287-all-forums-are-not-the-same/

[jerryrm]

Very interesting, Prof. For the record, the ECF is a UK forum, although most of the members are American.

Rolygate insists that it's an international forum, although both he and Smokey Joe, the founder, are British.

[profbeard]

Nov 3, 2011 15:53:41 GMT @jerryrm said:

Very interesting, Prof. For the record, the ECF is a UK forum, although most of the members are American.

Rolygate insists that it's an international forum, although both he and Smokey Joe, the founder, are British.

I know about ECF That's why I refer to forums as "US Main Focus" or "UK Main Focus" - ECF are NOT included in my stuff for that article, but if they were I'd refer to them as "US Main Focus" even though, as you correctly say, they are UK based. ECF is certainly not the largest UK "Main Focus" Forum (even Roly agrees on that)

[Chrissie]

Very interesting Prof

I would say some of the difference between the UK results must depend on certain vendors posting on certain forums?

[profbeard]

In the case of the UK forums there might well be a "trog" factor (but look at the big US forum?), but that doesn't explain the big difference between the two on the other devices...

[Jemima]

Theres also this reason ....

I use this forum as my main one, so often when a link is published here I'll read it here. Then when I go over to browse another forum I've already read it so don't bother readign again.

Other times I'll still read again to see if anyone has a post that wasn't covered here.

Plus does the amount of views count as individual views? Or is everytime I re-read that thread the view number increaseing?

These could be a few of lots of the little factors that add up over time

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

Ibread your link to the Super T about 3 times because I was researching a few options and wanted to digest what you had written and what comments others had left on your blog..... So 3 hits came from me on that one link :-)
By the way you swung me :-)

[profbeard]

What the article was looking at was the RELATIVE views of the posts about the different devices, that's why I havent showed the counts. I was using the counts as measures of interest rather than hard numbers of individuals (so re-reads are not a problem - they just show more interest).

The Precise Plus is an interesting one - there was more UK interest shown than US! But one UK forum showed much less interest than the other one.