Oh I see! So youāre suggesting I have taken Promās fanbase. That did not occur to me. So very obvious now itās pointed out! I am indebted to you, Iam.
You do realise this thread falls into the category of Yak yak yakking?
No, thatās you suggesting that this is what I am suggesting. I am merely pointing out another instance in which the view count seems to have been āmanipulatedā.
You started the thread. So, you tell me if the discussion is just yak, yak, yakking.
On the other hand, if someone is able to manipulate the view count here, who is to say what else is being manipulated? Something considerably more substantive for example.
I have no idea what you require from a thread! The original post was, and still is a serious enquiry. You responded, and I made a joke of it. For some obscure reason, you took me seriously. Yak yak yak? I believe every single conversation/exchange, contains philosophical content. You seem to think philosophy should follow a certain path. In my view, life doesnāt work like that. Life is short and passes extremely quickly. I donāt believe itās wise to spend oneās time being too serious. Yak yak yak for long enough and eventually youāll hit upon some pretty serious philosophy/truth.
Thatās your frame of mind. But: Iām not exactly inside your head in order to grasp your motivations and intentions. What, Iām supposed to just know when youāre joking and when youāre not?
At the same time, youāre not inside my head to grasp my own motivations and intention in regard to philosophy.
Nope, Iām stubbornly committed to the truth. Hereās a screenshot of past yearās traffic from Google Analytics, which I consider a more accurate representation of site traffic (sorry for the size):
The solid line is this year, the dotted line is last year. Iām not entirely sure why there was a bump in the first half of the year, since it begins before the pandemic and ends abruptly at not point in particular. I think maybe I fixed our DDOS protections around that time, but that assumes a sudden spike in bots that Google canāt tell are bots but Cloudflare can, and almost no bots before then (since the reduced numbers are approximately equal to the previous year).
Anyway, this is the real traffic, and January looks to be a slow month, in line with historical numbers.
Cloudflare says weāre getting a weird amount of traffic from France and Surinam, so almost certainly not real. Iāve turned on extra filtering to see if that fixes it.
i have always had the impression that millions of people from all around the world come to my thread and check all the time just to see if ive made a new post. i have no evidence that this is true, but it feels true.
And so it continues:
Screenshot 11.56
derleydoo thread recorded 131,459 views
Mowk thread recorded 161,388 views
Screenshot 11.58
derleydoo recorded 131,490 +31
Mowk thread recorded 161,428 +40
3 registered users and 19 guests online!
Where we are at 11.10 13/01
derleydoo: 133,830 views
mowk: 165,020 views
Well, with no further evidence submitted there can only be one conclusion. Thousands of people visit on a daily basis to see if Mr R has posted anew. Whilst here, they read posts from derleydoo. They then read posts from Mowk - on the assumption that Mowk is a sock puppet of derleydoo. Case closed. Thanks to all contributors.