Contrarian Value Ideas

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Re: Zardiw post# 213369

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 8:23:22 PM

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I can confidently and 100% say that I have never heard of or been privy to anything that suggests any aspect of our company manipulates or inflates stats in anyway.

I do seem to recall there was a point, many, many years ago, there was an idea thrown out that bots could be used to boost posting. That was pretty much quickly shut down by the iHub team from my recollection. From memory, they don't improve engagement in any way as their content is typically negligible and mostly ignored. Sure, it could artificially inflate post counts, but, so? It wouldn't increase dialog which would actually be meaningful.

Just for some perspective, I was on a call today and we were talking about some metric with Google. That specific # was in the 14 million range for something I believe was being analyzed on a daily basis. That's sort of mind boggling.

58k reads isn't really very high in the big scheme of things. And, truly, think about it. If iHub decided to "cook" any numbers - Q&A reads would be the silliest to manipulate. As far as I know, there's zero SEO value in this board. Absolutely no one wants this board to be on any sort of Hot! list. So, while it may look like that to you, I can't believe there's any validity to that theory.