How representative is GOT

Well?

  • Not at all

    Votes: 60 29.4%

  • Spot on

    Votes: 45 22.1%

  • Cheese on keyboard warriors

    Votes: 99 48.5%
  • Total voters
    204
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GrandOldTeam said:
Which is true, not just to here, or football - but digital in any industry. I disagree with the self selecting group as we're an open platform, not just here but across social media but I understand the point.

We might not want GOT to be representative and we make every attempt to ensure we're not positioned as so (and at times I'd rather not have that burden!), but given the number of Evertonians on the site - GOT is EFC's biggest fan platform - 6-12m pages loaded a month from visitors in over 80 countries, 300k social media fans, 100k subscribers and so is inevitably representative - the question is to what degree and what significance that is.

Quick example - we sign Cenk Tosun, immediately we have a massive influx of traffic - Turkey becomes our 2nd biggest referrer replacing USA for traffic. What Turkish fans see on here will inevitability represent/influence their view on EFC.

[Edit] Here is an interesting question - what is more Everton representative and diverse than GOT? As in, if you had to analyse the fan base and report on sentiment on a particular issue across the entire fanbase, how would you do it?
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Can we have a top 10 countries rundown???
 
orly said:
Can we have a top 10 countries rundown???
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Royalbm1 said:
Just wondering how much the feeling on here represents the feelings of the wider fan base.

Not living in the city anymore its hard to judge on some issues, i personally feel that this forum is a pretty accurate reflection but again its hard to judge not being there.
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The wider fanbase may have a life and not waste it like me talking rubbish to strangers.
 
WA Toffee said:
I think it is pretty much the same as every forum on the web. Overly represented by negative people who love to complain. People who are not strongly opinionated (probably the majority) tend not to post a lot because they don’t have extreme feelings one way or the other, and those of a positive nature tend to get fed up quite easily with negativity and drop out of conversations quickly. So most threads end up being long conversations between the whingers, the wums and the people who are trying to make funny comments.
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That is absolutely spot on.
 
Royalbm1 said:
Just wondering how much the feeling on here represents the feelings of the wider fan base.

Not living in the city anymore its hard to judge on some issues, i personally feel that this forum is a pretty accurate reflection but again its hard to judge not being there.
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Depends.

If you think what's typed is representative, then you're almost certainly badly wrong. A lot of what's typed is typed by people with extreme views ( compared to most of the fanbase ), and those people are very vocal, to the point of being gobby. A current example is the "will you go to a game with Allardyce still in charge" kind of thread. If you took any notice of what you read in that sort of thread then you'd expect Goodison to be half empty, but, strangely enough, it isn't.

But, GOT has a heck of a lot of members who don't type much, if at all, but when there's a poll posted which attracts interest, it could quite easily get 1000's of votes. The results of those polls will be far more representative of what the fan base really thinks, than any of the polarised views typed in the same thread.
 

Woolly Blue said:
Depends.

If you think what's typed is representative, then you're almost certainly badly wrong. A lot of what's typed is typed by people with extreme views ( compared to most of the fanbase ), and those people are very vocal, to the point of being gobby. A current example is the "will you go to a game with Allardyce still in charge" kind of thread. If you took any notice of what you read in that sort of thread then you'd expect Goodison to be half empty, but, strangely enough, it isn't.

But, GOT has a heck of a lot of members who don't type much, if at all, but when there's a poll posted which attracts interest, it could quite easily get 1000's of votes. The results of those polls will be far more representative of what the fan base really thinks, than any of the polarised views typed in the same thread.
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Ive also heard that theres a number of people who post on here that dont actually believe the things they type and get this, do it solely for the shock value.
 

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