The Great Migration? Yeah Right

Cutter's Log - Stardate 0102.61.21
Current Song - nWo Theme

My one-year study on the effects of the Great Migration of the NISB boards is complete.

My findings show that, in terms of overall coverage area geography, message board posts have been confined to a smaller location. Posts from outside this location have seen a dropoff. Furthermore, posts from veteran message board posters have dropped off.

What was promised from this Great Migration was the expansion of traffic on the message boards with the new postings next to the usual postings. Well, the usual postings have been nowhere to be found. This wasn't what I thought would happen. The mood has changed, and it's changed for the worse.

The message board is something that I've tried to make something different than the label that they are used to: a sewer of negativity. I've imagined a place where coaches and players of these teams can even wander around without feeling frightened about certain posts. There's too much fright going on in the past year. That very fright is preventing the full geographical representation from appearing. It's exactly what I feared, and hoped wouldn't happen. Well, it's happened.

The Board in the past year, and even the website to a certain degree, has seen a rise in avoidance. The increased website traffic presence from the southeast corner, thanks to my three contributors, is keeping it afloat. So, why it is missing from the Message Boards?

So, time to get out the old flyers and do something about it.