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by user24 5272 days ago
agreed. You get huge, brief spikes of largely useless traffic.

I'm not convinced there is an 'active' user of SU; I think people get into a click-the-stumble-button cycle and burn through 10s of pages a minute, meaning that most of the SU traffic is just bounces because they'll click for the next page in a matter of seconds.