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I like your idea but what are you going to do when a lot of people start visiting on the least busy days turning them into busy days? I know from personal experience that Wednesday afternoons between 1-4pm are usually the quietest times in movie theatres and other venues that tend to be packed on weekends so by putting this information in people's hands you're messing with my zen dude.

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But since this system only incorporates data from the past few weeks the shift towards quite days will be detected pretty fast and thus these days will start to be visible as busy. It will balance itself out I think

Since only a small percentage of the UK population use Foursquare I'd be more inclined to be concerned it might head in the opposite direction (i.e. relatively small numbers of people using this site to identify quiet days to visit are substantially more likely to check in - resulting in more noise than signal)

Wednesdays used to be quietest for cinemas in the UK but now it's one of the busiest thanks to the Orange 241 offer that's been running the past few years

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