MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if that effect is undone by the amount of logged in newbies. Was there a spike in AFD entries at the time? - ~~~~
This is exactly my point. It should be entirely possible to dig up the actual numbers and make a pretty graph to show objectively whether the policy change had effects like this, but nobody has. So _nobody knows_. Or if they do, they haven't published their results anywhere publicly - in the email that sparked me off on this thread Jimbo himself says he hasn't seen any analysis.