People are so predictible. They resent change because
they were not the instigators of the change. They need to embrace the
technology. There will probably come a time when many of these
writers/antagonists will be pleading to have their work seen.I
understand the Chessville may have seen a substantial increase in
traffic over the last several weeks. One may draw a conclusing as to
why.One thing we can rule out though, it didn't increase because any of
these famous writers submitted anything. Perhaps thier lack of support
has been a blessing!

Rob Mitchell should consider another possible explanation for any
purported increase in traffic: more search "hits" from the inclusion of
new material from reader participation. In other words, a quantitative
improvement in traffic which is anything but a confirmation of the Web
site's recent quality change (if any). But it is possible that people
are first reading about the site here, and then clicking any links they
may find here to zip over to Chessville. That would seem to indicate
that including clickable links here is a good way to drive traffic to
the
site -- but nothing more. By the way, your theory that traffic did not
improve because none of the famous posters here contributed anything
is hardly fair to IM Innes; first of all, he is only famous here; and
secondly, he is the one who came up with this idea in the first place!
Must he be expected to also contribute material on account of his
fame? That's asking a bit much, I think. In the future, please limit
your critical attacks on those who have fame, but who, unlike IM
Innes, did not already do more than their fair share for this project.
Sheesh -- the man virtually drips with envy of IM Innes' rgc fame.

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