Replies v. Views

[Mercule]

Just stopping by to play with rations.

(Why pretend I have any other reason to post?)

 

[MonsterMash]

The other thing that produces a high replies:views ratio are threads that quickly devolve into a back and forth argument between 2-6 posters. This process often generates a huge amount of adversarial uninformative text very fast, thereby depressing the number of views while simultaneously providing people with huge amounts of material to read respond to if they really want to keep up with the thread.

I'm very good as turning normal threads into ones like this.

Well of course when you get two or more posters treating it as an online conversation like that then it will generate probably one reply to every three or four views, like we're heading towards.

 

[MonsterMash]

Wisdom and Intelligence of at least 17
Hong Fu +5 Ranks
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Do you have to remove your pants to do Hong Fu?

 

[DragonSword]

Do you have to remove your pants to do Hong Fu?

Okay, I'm officially freaked out...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Do you have to remove your pants to do Hong Fu?

 

[jaerdaph]

I could have sworn on the old server, once you viewed a thread, you were only counted as having viewed that thread once, no matter how many times you went back into that thread.

Now the views count goes up every time I look at a thread. And if you hit refresh now in a thread, the view count goes up - and up and up if you keep refreshing repeatedly. In fact, I'm off to do that now!

Joe

 

[Angcuru]

If you want to see some really crazy ratios, check out the SH forum

So very true.

My SH is averaging 31-32 views per post. And I do most of the posting. (all of it, actually)

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

So very true.

My SH is averaging 31-32 views per post. And I do most of the posting. (all of it, actually)

Yep, that seems about average for most of the non-big name SHs. I get about 20-30ish views with each daily update...and I get a comment about once a page or so.

 

[Angcuru]

Yep, that seems about average for most of the non-big name SHs. I get about 20-30ish views with each daily update...and I get a comment about once a page or so.

That's the difference between us, AMPG.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Hmm. I could use that ratio thingie to my advantage. I already go into the Rules forum to add people to my Ignore list. I could just look for threads that have a lower view-to-postcount ratio, making it even easier to find the threads with odious people in them.

Rock on!