Ask PG: What's the traffic effect here from the TechCrunch mention?

Re:Ask PG: What's the traffic effect here from the TechCrunc... by Xichekolas on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @11:34AM (#134276)

Huh, not near as bad as I expected. For some reason I pictured a hoard of 10k new users posting nothing but xkcd and penny arcade.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the traffic effect here from the TechCrunc... by engtech on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @11:58AM (#134304)

would that be so wrong?

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Re:Ask PG: What's the traffic effect here from the TechCrunc... by Xichekolas on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @01:05PM (#134406)

10k new users wouldn't be so wrong...

10k new users posting xkcd and penny arcade comics would be. I can go to the xkcd/PA site to view the comics when I feel like it. I can go to fark/reddit/digg for humor. There is no need to make this site equal in content to them. I'm not saying they are bad, but I don't see the point in duplication.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the traffic effect here from the TechCrunc... by Zak on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @03:28PM (#134545)

10k new users might be a problem, in the same way that the flood of new Internet users from AOL was referred to as the "September that never ended". Any time users flow in to a community too quickly, it is difficult to bring them all in to compliance with the social norms of the community, resulting in a change in those social norms which the existing community members usually do not like. It's one of the reasons people get upset about immigration.

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Re:Ask PG: What's the traffic effect here from the TechCrunc... by harbinjer on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @12:12PM (#134323)

Well, 1 or 2 isn't bad, but eventually it would become noise, not signal.

I don't think that that goal of this site is quantity of users or stories, but quality.

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