Increased Posting Volume Due to PoA Release?

[werebearloony]

abigail wrote:
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> One thing that might prove me wrong, however: both previous movies 
were 
> released in the winter, when people are busy at school and work and 
don't 
> have as much time to post.  PoA will be released in the summer, 
which is 
> generally a high-volume period, and the confluence of the two 
events might 
> cause higher posting volume then we might otherwise expect.
> 
> Abigail

The fact that the release of PoA will during the summer is definitely 
a big difference.  Most people who are still in school will suddenly 
have more time around that point (I know my school lets out on June 
4, exactly the same day PoA comes out).  So a reasonable amount of 
increase is understandable.  Look at the past posting numbers for May 
and July -- 2001 May 1923, July 1634.  2002 May 903, July 1339.  2003 
May 2390, July 8234.  In most cases they go up and with the size of 
the group being much larger than previous, the number of posters who 
will have more time to post should be larger as well.  So I think 
that a group of Temp. Support Elves will have something to do 
regardless of whether or not the posting spikes because of PoA.

Just my two knuts

~~loony (posting here for the first time)