Thanks Bob Bob I only really found a piece of the jigsaw because you set my mind off thinking about these Covid loans to businesses in the first place. Without that I probably may well have seen references to the government and Future Fund as I did but not realise or even understand the full relevance of them in this context.
As for the number of views on this and other sites, I would really take them with a pinch of salt as there is so much data capture and searches done by bots and agencies these days to render them meaningless.
For instance we currently have a bot, with an ip address apparently showing it in France (take that with a large pinch of salt too) that has been online since LAST Thursday - and in order to stay online it has to be active on the site each and every hour, otherwise the site automatically logs them out.
There's another one logged in from Monday, this time with an ip address showing the USA.
It's how things are and have been for as long as I know which is at least for ten years or more dating back to when I was modding the Burnden Aces Forum and first had access to ip addresses.
Clearly real people do view threads also but I suspect the reality is that the longer the thread has been in existence the larger the proportion of views increase simply from search bots trawling the thread each and every day, rather than viewed by real people.
As for the number of views on this and other sites, I would really take them with a pinch of salt as there is so much data capture and searches done by bots and agencies these days to render them meaningless.
For instance we currently have a bot, with an ip address apparently showing it in France (take that with a large pinch of salt too) that has been online since LAST Thursday - and in order to stay online it has to be active on the site each and every hour, otherwise the site automatically logs them out.
There's another one logged in from Monday, this time with an ip address showing the USA.
It's how things are and have been for as long as I know which is at least for ten years or more dating back to when I was modding the Burnden Aces Forum and first had access to ip addresses.
Clearly real people do view threads also but I suspect the reality is that the longer the thread has been in existence the larger the proportion of views increase simply from search bots trawling the thread each and every day, rather than viewed by real people.