The Off Topic Conundrum of Newsgroups

Hopefully I can stay on topic with the topic of going off-topic. I think we’ve all noticed this effect and so we did a little research to look at this common occurence in Social Media channels and here’s what we found. To do this we examined the comment sections of 1,200 blogs that had an average of 5 comments per post and a posting frequency of at least once per week. Then we looked at 1,200 newsgroups and forums across multiple topics (auto’s, knitting, model building, tool and home repair.) We then compared. Continue reading »