With added filters and moderation.

Here’s to all the trolls (the same three guys with 48 different IP addresses) in the comments who think we brought them back because visits went down.

We removed them on July 15. Here’s are our unique visitors since.

By day:

By week:


[The last one is less than three days.]

And as you can see, visits were up 3% since we took them down.

The commenters are not as important as they think they are and make up .1% of the audience. Without being rude to them (some are great, the finest people!), you are inconsequential to Crossing Broad, as a business. But, some of you are funny. Perhaps it’s time for an AMA.

Or maybe I’ll wait until after we roll out our Philly Sports Media Power Rankings in September.

Also, I’m back, baby.