I have a theory

[Dominick]

Originally posted by mr e
im confused here...and what is *ggg* ? :banana:

simply put
depending on the compression scheme gzip will compress based upon similarities in the file/files it is working with. So if you have a file that looks like this

1919191919191919191

then it will compress to a smaller gzipped file then say

1932498745982475984

so my theory is this...

if signal to noise is any gauge, most forums that suck always have the same damn things repeated over and over ad. infinum.

So gzip the forums threads and weigh them on a scale so to speak.

whatever gzip file is bigger is probalby better. because it is more original. IE less similiarties and gzip cant compress it that far.