Can you cite a case where this has actually transpired? Obviously in the extreme example where the site is never available I can see it having an effect. But sp

Can you cite a case where this has actually transpired? Obviously in the extreme example where the site is never available I can see it having an effect. But spotty downtime I've seen actually have the opposite effect - users become more loyal. On one forum I frequent the "500 errors" are sometimes looked forward to since they usually signify a big news event is happening. Reddit and twitter are other sites that don't seem to have been negatively affected by spotty downtimes. I do think that regularly (excruciatingly) slow performance can have an impact though - one of the reasons I left digg with V3.