There’s no specific number goal in mind, but ideally, every time you check your feed reader or the site, you should see something new.

Yahoo Answers is so general that I think it suffers — even if I do find something that seems useful there, its credibility, I think, is damaged by its lack of focus.

Yahoo Answers, for example, has such an enormous volume of questions that the question you were looking at can be pushed four of five pages down the list in the time it takes for you to answer it. That seems like it’s far too much volume for questions to get seen by the people who need to see them. Similarly, when I post on Web forums, I find that the sites I keep coming back to occupy a sort of “middle ground” in terms of volume … that is, they have enough volume that I can leave, come back 30 minutes later, and find a few new things to read and respond to, but not so much volume that I’ll end up losing entire discussions if I’m away for a day.

Do you think there’s a “sweet spot” of sorts for ReportingOn’s volume that will result in maximum effectiveness? Is this maybe something that you would try to control by having more and narrower beats if the traffic is high, but fewer and wider beats if it’s not as high?