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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1808313" data-attributes="member: 99">I don't have an update to post at the moment, though I'm working on one that I hope to have up by the end of the weekend.  But I am curious about something and wondered if my readers would help me out.I've noticed that over the last couple weeks, since I went on my binge of posting last week and throughout this week as well, that the "Views" count on the Story Hour is going up at the astonishing rate of some 50-100 views per day.  I'm floored by this and I'm interested in finding out some reasons why it might be the case.Obviously there are not 50-100 people out there who are reading the story and, while it would be somewhat flattering if there were, I'm not upset by this.  But I find it hard to believe that the half dozen or so people who do read regularly are popping 8-10 times a day too.  So that would mean (unless I'm wrong) that there are a number of people who read but don't post, or there are litterally HUNDREDS of people out there who pop in once to look at the SH and hate it, never to return again.  I'd like to think that this last one is not the answer so I'm guessing that the most likely is that there are some number of folks out there who are simply lurkers.I'm not going to attempt to badger these folks out of lurkerhood, though I am happy to have them post if they'd like and I'm thrilled that they are readers of mine.  But I would be interested in hearing from the "regulars" as to how many times they pop in per day.  Do you just check in when there might be an update (i.e. a post by me that shows up in your "Subscribed Threads" list)?  Or do you check it each time anybody posts to read their comments?  Or do you simply pop in some arbitrary number of times per day, week or month and see if the story has progressed?If you don't feel like posting about this (regardless of whether you are a lurker or regular or somewhere in between) then I'm not going to be too put out.  But the dynamics of these things fascinates me and I was just curious.Plus I've got my ego to consider, so there's that.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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