Ratio of Replies to Views

kdnxdr · Mar 6, 2007

I have been scrolling looking at the ratio of replies-to-views. It's so interesting to see such a disparity between the two. Some are huge! Makes me wonder who are all the viewers? So then, I start suspecting that there are hordes of surveyors, researchers, students, etc who are trolling the forums looking for stats, ideas for papers, resources for instructional purposes, etc.

Do any of you get curious and have any thoughts as to why there is often a huge gap between replies and views on the various threads? Or, am I just a paranoid conspiracist seeker?

MattW · Mar 6, 2007

Some threads are like a fight in the monkey cage at the zoo - you want to watch, but not get too close.

Others, I poke my head in, see it's not what I wanted, or went off on a tangent too soon, or hasn't yet gone off on a suitable tangent, or someone beat me to the obvious one-liner and now I've got nothing to say.

Kentuk · Mar 6, 2007

Currently 11 to 1.
Suggest that everyone who views this thread post something. Sort of a test to see how many true lurkers we have. Would also like to hear from the mods on this subject. How many pure readers do we get?

BTW we love readers!

brunoshouse · Mar 7, 2007

I tend to be more of a reader.

K1P1 · Mar 7, 2007

I like to think that it's a sign of maturity. Many of us actually know when to keep our mouth shut.

J. Weiland · Mar 7, 2007

K1P1 said:
I like to think that it's a sign of maturity. Many of us actually know when to keep our mouth shut.

Touché.

Pagey's_Girl · Mar 7, 2007

And then sometimes you start to post something, but you can actually hear the collective eye roll as you type.

Yes, hear. If you can hear people rolling their eyes at what you just said, you know you're officially lame...

*Flinches at the sound of a collective AW eye roll.*

Cath · Mar 7, 2007

And sometimes you click on the wrong thread by mistake and find yourself reading about eggplant when you expected an update on babies.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Mar 7, 2007

As of this post, there are 13,809 members of AW. About 189 of us have more than 1000 posts.

Thank goodness for the lurkers! If we prolific posters waste as much time as we do NOW, can you imagine how bad it would be if everyone were as mouthy (fingery? That sounds... just... wrong!) as we are?

Pagey's_Girl · Mar 7, 2007

Cath said:
And sometimes you click on the wrong thread by mistake and find yourself reading about eggplant when you expected an update on babies.

Actually, sometimes you click the right thread and it still happens...and I'm sometimes the one responsible...

(On another board)
Poster #1: You wouldn't have been so ticked off if it had been Pagey who sent the thread careening off-topic...

Two posts later: Sorry, Pagey, it's just that well....

Poster #2 - You're really good at it. No offense...

Me: :roll:

BardSkye · Mar 7, 2007

MidnightMuse · Mar 7, 2007

K1P1 said:
I like to think that it's a sign of maturity. Many of us actually know when to keep our mouth shut.

And thankfully, many of us don't.

Shwebb · Mar 7, 2007

What?

*rolls over and goes back to lurking in her sleep*

KingM · Mar 7, 2007

Lurking. Don't like monkey poo thrown in my direction. Keeping distance.

Pomegranate · Mar 7, 2007

I lurk on most threads. I only post if I think I have something new to say in the conversation.

Stew21 · Mar 7, 2007

If you are the OP of a thread, don't you go back and view it again everytime someone responds, don't all of those count in the views? Sometimes the people who add to the "views" are the people posting too.

right?

MidnightMuse · Mar 7, 2007

KingM said:
Lurking. Don't like monkey poo thrown in my direction. Keeping distance.

Hmmm . . . Monkey Poo / Pies.

Monkey Poo . . . Pies.

Hmmm . . .

AceTachyon · Mar 7, 2007

The Monkey Poo thread will return after these messages.

K1P1 · Mar 7, 2007

K1P1 said:
I like to think that it's a sign of maturity. Many of us actually know when to keep our mouth shut.

J. Weiland said:
Touché.

Mind you, I don't count myself among them!

The Scip · Mar 7, 2007

When you post, and then you see your addition at the bottom of the thread does that count as a new post because the page reloaded?

sassandgroove · Mar 7, 2007

What. I'm not lurking. I'm working. Really...I'm not at AW I swear!

veinglory · Mar 7, 2007

Shockingly there are many threads where I have nothing useful to add.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Mar 7, 2007

veinglory said:
Shockingly there are many threads where I have nothing useful to add.

OMG... is 'useful' a criteria?

Maryn · Mar 7, 2007

You can't stop progress, KTC!

AceTachyon · Mar 7, 2007

Go forth, multiply, and have lots of fruit!

Forward the Foundation!

Ratio of Replies to Views

One of the most important people in the world

Company Man

I want to write what I want to write

Procrastination is its own reward

Lurker

Still plays with dolls

The mean one

Hand? What hand?

Still plays with dolls

Barbershoppin' Harmony Whore

Midnight Reading

She's the creepy-looking dude

Midnight Reading

Odd person

Procrastination is its own reward

...walks this way.

Sassy haircut

volitare nequeo

Hand? What hand?

Baaa!

Odd person