No, I didn't. I said that MY revenue was down in July versus June. I did not provide a scale on which that happened but clarified that my average for 2014 is still higher than 2013.

OK, but I've provided quite a bit of evidence now to suggest that you are attributing that to fictitious events. You keep insisting that you feel or believe something which is demonstrably false.

So you picked July, right? The next question to help narrow this down would be when you think that someone writing more posts in reaction to a theoretical drop in revenue would find out that the revenue numbers changed and therefore be able to react. When do you believe that happened? The reporting is not real-time; there is a lag.

This is a very different claim than the one you made originally that the behavior change was made based on ad revenue numbers. I have no doubt that a return of affiliate links caused a few posts to show up. That happens pretty much every time there is a change in a promo. But that has nothing to do with the ad revenue numbers. I've presented more than sufficient evidence at this point to demonstrate:

• There has not been a change in the overall posting patterns of the group; and,
• There is no way that the post counts could have changed in response to a change in the revenue numbers you're claiming knowledge of given the timing of the release of that information to the bloggers.

As I mentioned several times in this thread there are two possibilities when one is presented with evidence they've screwed up: Admit a mistake or fight vigorously. You've chosen the latter and done so in the face of a growing mound of facts to the contrary. That's unfortunate in so many ways.

No need to disagree on these bits; I agree wholeheartedly with them. But that's not the claim gpapadop made originally which I called out as false. He has claimed that there was some sort of cataclysmic event within Boarding Area which caused bloggers to start posting lots more about CCs. And I've provided a ton of evidence now to show that to be false.

Yet he still insists. That is a shame, really.

ETA: To be incredibly clear on the topic of CC posts, I also do not believe that the pattern has really changed recently, another claim being made by gpapadop. I provided some evidence from OMAAT and the 7 posts in May about the Ink card which I believe supports the view that any time a new CC offer like that comes out there will be some bloggers who write a lot about it. I've previously provided similar data on other offers going back into 2013. This is not a new habit nor does it appear tied to any other external influences. If there's an offer they'll write about it. Sometimes frequently. But that's just facts countering an imagined reality. And no evidence has been provided to counter those facts.