HLJ, by the same "reasoning" I had above.
The first post (or first view) in the thread
must be "1".
and there might or might not be a second ("2")
..If there is a "2" there might or might not be a third ("3")
..If there is a .... and so on up to "N"
That is, two "1's" must occur (1 and 10) before there can be two "9's" as the first digit.
So the probability at any given test of the number of posts is going to be higher for "1's" than any other digit, etc.
Therefore in repeated measurements, the distribution of digits will not be equal.
With respect to the "distribution indicated by Benford's Law", my example might or might not be the same.
But as in most treaties on Statistics, "The derivation is left to the reader"
