Despite how much I wish it were true, given the relatively small amount of members here, I find it unlikely my journals are receiving in excess of 1, 2 or 3,000 views, and so I'm opening this to test the theory that the view count is skewed in some way. Maybe bots? Not sure. But this journal, so to speak, will have nothing in it bar this post, so if I suddenly start seeing hundreds of views, it's either proof that I can't trust view counts or you all really really need to get out more!
The experiment begins...
June 6: View count 0
June 7: View count 32
This again?
Trollheart, for the love of god and everyone's wellbeing, especially your own, please just ignore the number of views on any thread including your journals. Just write them if you enjoy it and thats much more important than how many people read them
Agreed with
@Marie Monday. I think a simple test of whether it's real human engagement/views on threads can be measured by the amount of real human engagement you're getting in the thread. So if you have a thread where only one person is posting, but it has 3000 views, it's not real human engagement - if it was, more of those 'real humans' would be making comments. Bots, webcrawlers, etc are the more likely explanation.
If I want to do a test I'll do a test. The only reason I put the intro post was to let people know what I was doing. I'm interested, I'm bored, sue me. The test journal stays. Enquiring, bored minds need to know.
How ironic that the "journal" I asked nobody to post in and to ignore has already the most comments of any of mine! :laughing:
Quote from: Trollheart on Jun 07, 2024, 11:02 PMIf I want to do a test I'll do a test. The only reason I put the intro post was to let people know what I was doing. I'm interested, I'm bored, sue me. The test journal stays. Enquiring, bored minds need to know.
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Fair enough. The average settlement is ten thousand dollars.
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FYI, it does matter. Currently, on MB, my Playlist of Life still holds the record of any journal, having just passed half a million views. Even if half of them are bots etc, that's still damn impressive. I've already outlined my take on why I journal, so I won't go into it again.
So in conclusion, yay me boo you. :finger: :laughing:
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NO! DON'T COME IN!!!!!
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June 10th: Views: 106
Quote from: Key on Jun 10, 2024, 05:50 PMDon't encourage this
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Quote from: Key on Jun 10, 2024, 05:50 PMDon't encourage this
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So what were the ultimate findings of this test?
I probably should delete it, but there are posts from other people here and I don't want to be so arrogant as to dismiss them.
Generally, it seems that there are so far over 1,000 views on this faux thread, so I think the inescapable conclusion is that, even if nobody is reading, someone is. Or, to put it another way, something is racking up the views, probably bots. This doesn't, I think, take from my journal The Playlist of Life still holding the record for views back on MB (just over half a million as of now), but it does make me wonder how much I can trust the views for my journals here, which was always the metric I used to gauge interest/disinterest, as few people ever commented.
I think it proves that even with nothing in it, a thread can rack up the views, as this one has. Even so, 1000 views in a two-month period - you'd have to wonder how many bots are swarming all over this place? Is it like those laser trip beams that can only be seen criss-crossing some vault or case with a valuable object in them when infra-red light is used?
Quote from: Trollheart on Aug 16, 2024, 01:45 AMGenerally, it seems that there are so far over 1,000 views on this faux thread....
^ about half a dozen of those views are down to me, TH: I keep forgetting that I've been here before, and because it's regularly at the top of your journal section, I assume that's where the journal action is.
See you same time tomorrow.
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Quote from: Lisnaholic on Aug 16, 2024, 04:21 PM^ about half a dozen of those views are down to me, TH: I keep forgetting that I've been here before, and because it's regularly at the top of your journal section, I assume that's where the journal action is.
See you same time tomorrow.
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^ :laughing: Yeah, that too!
Sure you only have to look down (hope you have a head for heights!) to see my new Game of Thrones journal, as well as my histories of England and Ireland, to name but three. Go on! Spoil yourself! I'm sure there's something there you'll like. Hello? Hello? Anyone? *tap-tap!*
Is this thing on?