A boring topic about visitors to our site

[buster]

An observation on the 'views', whatever that means, of the stories.

If I arrange 'General Discussion' from most viewed to least I get 13 pages. All 5 stories have moved up to the first page. And the total number of views for the stories tallies over 55,000.

The Really Unpleasant Computer Problem leads the second story by almost 7,000 views, though it was posted a few years later. It should reach 20,000 views in a few days.

I do recognize that this is not nearly as exciting for anyone else, especially Marilyn, who is annoyed because I was doing my happy dance and knocked over, and smashed, a cup. But I shall continue to believe that 'views' are important.

[Jason]

I just realized that you must be doing an experiment with your catchy title.

[buster]

"I just realized that you must be doing an experiment with your catchy title."

Maybe. But it may not be just the title. This thread that you and I are writing has been the only active one for days, so it shows up on 'latest posts'.

Second thing, the statistics are astonishing.

1. February this year had more views than any total year before 2022.

2. The views are not everywhere. The Peterborough Penguin Problem, not about computers except for the TuxRacer scene, was never popular but has passed other threads and moved up to page one of General Discussion when arranged by views, and has even climbed a bit on this page. It should reach over 5,000 views today.

3. The views occur during the night too. Either we have many night owls in North America, or some place like Australia is spreading the word.

4. If the views were random, I doubt we would have one story, published fourth, 7000 views ahead of the long time leader published second. (20,000+ versus 13,000+)

By the way, the next time you start a thread, see if you can work the word nipple into the title. Sure to be a winner.

[Jason]

By the way, the next time you start a thread, see if you can work the word nipple into the title. Sure to be a winner.

Lol. I'll be sure to do that. If Fox is reading, I wonder if he'd use a distro called Nipple Linux?

[buster]

The title of this thread has 3 'hooks' in it - CIA, FBI, and Aliens. The thread should be removed, and I thought I had that power, but apparently not. I say it should be removed because it is going to be, apparently, the number one viewed thread on the forum in maybe 10 months. It doesn't deserve that honour. It's just a trick. And it's coinciding with the 'views' this year jumping on oue site by about 1,000% over any previous year!

I don't think there are any hooks in the title 'The  Really Unpeasant Computer Problem', and it's going to be the most 'viewed' thread in I guess 3 or 4 weeks. Very surprising to me. Hope it's on merit.

Our site is pretty well dormant, but is getting massive attention. This world we live in is very odd.

[Jason]

Are you sure it's not because we both mentioned 'nipple'?