Threre will now be two separate threads for this - this one in the Everton forum, for serious and realistic transfer speculation. Please justify your reasons for suggesting a linked player in this thread.
The other, for players we'd like to see but has zero basis in fact, is here; https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/silly-season-transfer-speculation.76611/
Please be sensible and be warned that any off topic posts that come to our attention will be infracted and/or threadbanned.
Additional info :-
The other, for players we'd like to see but has zero basis in fact, is here; https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/silly-season-transfer-speculation.76611/
Please be sensible and be warned that any off topic posts that come to our attention will be infracted and/or threadbanned.
Additional info :-
It might seem overly draconian and just being done to annoy people but it's not, annoying folk is just a nice by product !
Last summer, and January to a lesser extent, quite a few lurkers contacted us saying the transfer thread was clogged up with various things such as cat gifs, cliquey in jokes and transfer stuff which plainly had no chance of happening.
If you look at the number of views a thread gets and compare it to the number of posts you get an indication of how many people are lurking. As I type, we're on post 1454 with 108,000 views ( 74 views per post )
The other thread is on a ratio of 672 to 21,500 ( 32 views per post )
For comparison, go to the Everton forum and click on "views" to order by that. Below the stickied threads the top 2 are the transfer threads from the last season with 3.2 and 1.3 million views respectively. Our most viewed match thread is on page 2 at 150,000 views.
Basically GOT is bloody huge
Anyway, the views on the 2 current transfer threads tells us two things
Those of us who are on GOT on a regular basis tend to forget that there are loads of Blues using this place who rarely,if ever, post. They're as entitled as anyone else to use this place and, if we can make it easier for them to read what they're really interested in without overly stressing the posters, then it's not a bad idea to do so.
- This thread's more popular than the speculation thread ( though that might partly because it's stickied ) and
- It has more lurkers checking up on what people is likely to happen
TL;DR ?
It's being done for the lurking majority
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