why are so many people looking up Rumours forum?

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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I think you could say the same thing about all of these forums lately; there is definitely a disproportionately smaller number of actual posts vs. the number of viewers online at any given moment. For whatever reason, there seems to be this passive hostility against the Ledge that I don't fully understand. In other words, people are willing to lurk for the latest information, but are unwilling to contribute. It's utterly lame, but whatever...

that's interesting, and i'm thinking what you are referring to may be happening specifically in SN forum? on the main page i don't see less visitors of SN forum than usual, proportion of SN vs LB forum visitors has been about the same, and is actually a bit higher than usual 2:1 since Stevie's been touring Australia /visiting tv shows there. but Rumours forum visitors are usually as scarce as Lindsey forum visitors, and all of the sudden every day you can see these spurs of way more visitors checking out Rumours forum than even SN forum (e.g., 50 on Rumours vs 30 on SN). i haven't see this happening in the last 1-2 years that i was around.

my theory is that this is spurred by Stevie's Australian tour and that there must be a lot of talk there about her tour, but instead of interest in SN alone, this has spurred interest in FM. the Australian album sales figures seem to support this too as all 3 or so usual-suspect-FM-album sales are way up in Australia, plus at least one of the SN's greatest hits albums re-entered the charts there too but not nearly as high as FM albums.

Lindsey forum seems to be pretty steady with the number of posts and visitors, with spurs of activity when Seeds We Saw came out, as Lindsey was touring, and when Small Machine came out. since UK tour has been postponed i expect LB forum to pretty soon go to hibernation for a while till new dates are announced...