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#1 Mispeled

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 04:11 PM

Most of the forums on the Ambrosia boards have about a 1:10 ratio of topic replies to topic views. It makes sense for all the forums for the games, since a lot of googlers will come across threads when searching "ev 3D" or "nude sidescroller mac". For the BnB and Just Chat it makes sense, since they have a lot of lurkers.

But for the ATT, it doesn't make sense. When you view a thread and post in it, you at most view it twice or three times. Even WAF somehow manages to have a 1:6 ratio. There's pretty much nothing useful here that someone would be googling for, and I find it hard to believe that we have lurkers. My theory is that a certain member is sitting at his or her computer all day refreshing the ATT threads to up the view counts. What about all of you?

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#2 dude3

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 04:29 PM

I went ahead and refreshed this thread a few times. I would have done it more, but my connection is too slow.

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#3 JacaByte

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 06:19 PM

I lurk around looking at topics usually. When I see something I want to reply to, I reply to it.

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 07:46 PM

It almost crashed Safari, but...

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Hows a 1:45 ratio sound?

This has been an effect of procrastination.

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#5 Ashen-Shugar

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:49 PM

Obviously there's a massive conspiracy here.

I may or may not have refreshed the page repeatedly to inflate the view count.

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 11:40 PM

The feet topic doesn't have the 1:6 ratio...

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#7 CrazyChick

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 12:45 AM

It's too long. No-one except those who posted early on want to read a topic over three pages long.

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#8 dude3

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 12:50 AM

It's important to consider that any person who attempts to read through the entirety of WAF will add 408 views. I don't doubt that this has been done more than a few times.

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 12:53 AM

There's over 10,000 quality, frequently googled words on WAF. Doesn't surprise me at all.

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#10 Ashen-Shugar

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 06:05 PM

We could add random vocab words like munificence and meretricious to the WAF to inflate the view count further. Or is that not the point?

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 11:15 PM

I view threads much, much, much more than I post. That whole "don't post where you have nothing to say" rule, remember?

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#12 Avatara

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 12:09 AM

I know several lurkers of these boards. (Hi Selax!)

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#13 CrazyChick

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 03:27 AM

I read a lot more than I post. And I confess to reading through about half of the WAF over several months.

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 10:51 AM

Sundered Angel, on Feb 28 2007, 09:15 PM, said:

I view threads much, much, much more than I post. That whole "don't post where you have nothing to say" rule, remember?

I pretty much killed that rule. I post in just about every topic I read.

I think that there are people who enjoy our wit but can't be bothered to actually make an account. Lazy sods.

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#15 Mispeled

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 04:04 PM

Sundered Angel, on Feb 28 2007, 11:15 PM, said:

I view threads much, much, much more than I post. That whole "don't post where you have nothing to say" rule, remember?

You mean we're actually supposed to follow that rule?

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 04:09 PM

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#17 Tycho Maudd

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 04:17 PM

I lurk in the ATT, and I assume there are others like me boosting the view count as well.

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#18 Anaxagoras

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 04:21 PM

Even though I have a pretty high post count, I only post about every tenth time I look at something. It should be taken into account that occasionally the boards are more interesting.

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#19 mrxak

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Posted 01 March 2007 - 04:36 PM

Tycho Maudd, on Mar 1 2007, 04:17 PM, said:

I lurk in the ATT

But... why?

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