Originally Posted by
intuition
Perhaps high traffic can be generated by instigating the perception that an attack is perpetrated on a select demography (frequent flying smokers in this case), who then rush to defend.
Maybe we need more "it is time to close the ... forum" threads, and hope to get them featured by the owner so every low traffic forum finds it crowd.
That is one way to do things.
Sometimes the counts of threads, of posts and/or of post views may be rather misleading in what they may otherwise indicate if unaware of historical context. Examples of this can be found in the way TS&S topics have been dealt with on FT. The numbers may make some think that one part of FT is way more vibrant than another part of FT discussing the same or related topics, and yet an objective analysis based on historical awareness may right that misperception/claim using counts of some sort or another.