On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:50:28 -0500, Catrike Rider
<sol...@drafting.not> wrote:
>Frank likes to announce that he's not reading someone's posts instead
>of just not reading their posts... It's called getting the required
>attention any way he can.
You might find it interesting to look at RBT using Google Groups:
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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech>
If you display any thread of articles, you'll find at the top of the
page the number of unique Google ID's that have read the article. In
the current thread owned by Andre:
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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/a7qeZZ5RqR4>
"Another Cynical, Useless, Gun-Control Push by Donkey Party"
I find 44 views.
I've been watching the numbers on various threads and find some
correlation demonstrating that the predominantly bicycle related
threads get far more views than political and off topic threads. For
example, this thread by Andrew on a Bianchi aero superbike press
release:
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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/fZ5vtGQaPSM>
received 211 views.
My numbers seem to indicate that while political and firearm threads
generate the largest number of articles, bicycle related threads
attract the largest number of readers. However, I haven't bothered to
tabulate exact counts making this my general impression and not a
statistically substantiated fact.
Unfortunately, the numbers can be misleading. Google only counts
people who read RBT using Google Groups. A fairly large number of
readers use eternal-september, Supernews or other Usenet news
services, which will not be counted. The numbers also include casual
readers who were directed to RBT articles from various search engines.
Still, the numbers indicate what the Google users prefer to read in
RBT.
Please don't ask me what "views" means. Google has various
definitions for "unique views", "unique pageviews" and other terms
taken from Google Analytics. I won't pretend to understand exactly
what they mean.
For what it's worth, I tend to first read articles by those whom I
find interesting, second by those replying to a thread in which I'm
involved, and whatever is left by the amount of time I have available.
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