thats far from stupidity.

I don't know man... those baby seals are pretty dangerous if left alone..

people shouldnt take them for more than what they are. amazon hourly best sellers.

If you're referring to using hourly data as a basis for long time analysis then we disagree.

Why not simply ignore these threads then? Simply consider people who overrate hourly sales from one specific shop in one specific country idiots and focus on other, more reasonable threads.

Why does everything one doesn't like need to be banned/forbidden?

of course not in long term, but is good to measure buyers trend towards deals.

for example if sony or ms announce a deal for a day the only place u could measure the success is on amazon

It's kinda impossible to ignore the threads, since they don't have "I'M USING AMAZON HOURLY DATA!" in the title of the thread.  Even people who use insiderp at least put that in the title.  Which is why I still don't get the complaints about those threads, as they are far and between compared to the Amazon ones and they are clearly labeled so you don't enter expecting a better source.

What I would say to people using hourly as long term is, what's the point?  Amazon breaks bestsellers down by the year, the month, and even the week.  Why not just use those numbers?  I mean, it's fine if you want to add a sentence to a weekly/monthly/yearly thread talking about how long you've noticed a SKU in the Top Whatever, but to base an entire thread, especially with how often this is repeated, on the hourly data is just silly, IMO.

For that you have the daily archives. And even if not you can see daily bursts quite well on monthly charts.

The hourly rankings fluctuate so much that they're just garbage.

umm dont click or comment on them, and they will go away. not a hard thing to do.

It's interesting to watch the pops and drops. We need to talk about it!