That's why alain wants us to focus on commerce, security, and the like. When everyone clicks population, our pre-emptive clicks for the other stats will keep everything in check.
I understand this.
I just don't think it's going to be enough. Which is what I was getting at it. Hundreds of clicks on other stats could easily be overrun very quickly if this goes on the main page as only a population link.
Problem is just that I don't think Tass or Synth or whoever makes the post will want to list 6 links in the post. They just want a quick mention, one bit of blue highlighted text. Over linking makes people think there's too much to check out, and they skip links entirely (see a few posts ago where Synth hotlinked the subscriber signup page about 4 times in one post.) I think we're more likely to get effective traffic if we get everyone involved in the one page link and do the cleanup ourselves. This is definitely manageable if we're preemptive.
On another note, people have been clicking the industry link, and as such - pollution has increased in the city and needs env clicks to be controlled. This is completely unecessary cleanup. I would prefer if everyone who knew of commerce would pick it instead of industry.
It's like growing up with a plastic knife. When you're finally old enough to have a steel knife, you don't keep using the plastic one. It does the same job, sure, but nowhere near as well.
I've been attempting to upgrade transport through proxying and have been taking down a list of the ones that worked. The thing is some of them connected to the site just fine but still didn't work. Was this just because somebody used the same site previously or...?
Also, I agree with Reach on having more than just the population link on the front page. If six links wouldn't work as well, maybe just two would. We could have the links to population and commerce instead of only population.
I just think that having only population would be way too much to handle, as Reach stated.
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