The MM board bubble bursts

Pop !..

I've been tracking the progress of the mm board groups as they game traffic using huge numbers of MM boards. I think this was the unforeseen consequence of banning campers which opened the door to new forms of traffic gaming to replace them. ( and many scammers who saw an opportunity )
Sooner than I expected the numbers of people chasing them has collapsed. For whatever reason the traffic of the two top sims using large numbers of MM boards has fallen by between 60 to 90% .. from 27k down to 3k in one case.
This was always going to be hardest on merchants who paid rentals on stores in 'high' traffic sims not realising to what extent it relied on a continual stream of freebies and a mob of eager hunters.
I hope merchants learn the lesson... traffic that rises fast always falls just as fast. Real traffic not based of tons of freebs rises at a rate of 5% max a month whatever you do. The hubs traffic started at 4 people on the fist day and has grown steadily over the last two years at an almost un wavering rate. It frustrates me that people think it just happened over night.. Even the best of ideas take a very long time to get established. ( exept if you shout ..Get it here it's all FREEEEEE lol )