Being an active member of the community does not grant knowledge of statistical regularities like you need it to for the argument to work. There is no way she can know ‘most’ readers read it there, because most readers will never say anything and there will be differences in who does say things—the readers that an author hears from are not random readers, to say the least.
The number of reviews that you’re trying to infer more readers from is also from FF.net. The 2 million hits are also from ff.net. There are no numbers from anywhere else. I’ve already demonstrated that it’s theoretically impossible for there to have been even as many as 29,000 readers at that time on FF.net, and you’re apparently still claiming there were 127k on ff.net. It’s your analysis, not mine, that’s been debunked here.
And how would she know?
She was there. She was an active member of the community when the story came out.
Being an active member of the community does not grant knowledge of statistical regularities like you need it to for the argument to work. There is no way she can know ‘most’ readers read it there, because most readers will never say anything and there will be differences in who does say things—the readers that an author hears from are not random readers, to say the least.
The number of reviews that you’re trying to infer more readers from is also from FF.net. The 2 million hits are also from ff.net. There are no numbers from anywhere else. I’ve already demonstrated that it’s theoretically impossible for there to have been even as many as 29,000 readers at that time on FF.net, and you’re apparently still claiming there were 127k on ff.net. It’s your analysis, not mine, that’s been debunked here.