How have the posts moved?

[Geoff]

Geoff:
An interesting exercise for me has been to look 
at how the posting totals have moved.

For the last 6 months of 2009, the three groups 
mainly concerned showed the following:

              Jul   Aug   Sep   Oct    Nov   Dec
Main    280  195   210   436   234   120
OTC     182    91   147   124     41     10
Movie   475  218    12        0       0     27

The average totals per month for the year 2009 are:

Main   289
OTC    156
Movie 119

OTC, to an extent is a maverick because, as many 
of you have pointed out, threads go off all over the 
place at random, hence there are likely to be fluctuations.

Main showed some highs and lows, the surge in October 
being interesting and probably helping to shove the 
average up.

But the intriguing result is the collapse in the Movie 
figures. There was the probably to be expected surge in 
posts when HBP hit the cinemas in July but this seemed 
to tail off quickly and the complete hiatus for two months
looks completely inexplicable. My only conclusion would 
be that this does seem to support the frequently voiced 
opinion that a merger between Main and Movie appears
a reasonable way forward to consider - if we finally decide 
that we need to dismantle the existing structure - leaving
OTC to dwell in its own little world.