What's happened with our page views? , page 4

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord

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... and just about all other sites with user-generated comments and replies with very-high traffic don't log real-time views.

Aah, the owner's claim is way off. Anyone can check:
rankings.big-boards.com...

Much harder task though is to figure out what kind of conspiracy the removal of the view feature supports. I guess, one needs to turned paranoid to figure that out.

The truth is simple: ATS server is not up to the task to serve well. But it handles exceptionally well the task of filling your temp Internet files with garbage.

/end of bitching/ {3 words}

Originally posted by stander
Aah, the owner's claim is way off. Anyone can check:
rankings.big-boards.com...

Much harder task though is to figure out what kind of conspiracy the removal of the view feature supports. I guess, one needs to turned paranoid to figure that out.

The truth is simple: ATS server is not up to the task to serve well. But it handles exceptionally well the task of filling your temp Internet files with garbage.

/end of bitching/ {3 words}

I don't see any views on the forums you linked there. I checked the top 3, and none of them have views listed. Why? Because he is telling the truth. I would call them out on it quickly if it wasn't the case.

Originally posted by stander
Aah, the owner's claim is way off. Anyone can check:
rankings.big-boards.com...

You forgot to sort by traffic...

The truth is simple: ATS server is not up to the task to serve well. But it handles exceptionally well the task of filling your temp Internet files with garbage.

Really? And you have yet more false assumptions upon which to back that up? I've already asked once about this.

Originally posted by badmedia

Originally posted by stander
Aah, the owner's claim is way off. Anyone can check:
rankings.big-boards.com...

Much harder task though is to figure out what kind of conspiracy the removal of the view feature supports. I guess, one needs to turned paranoid to figure that out.

The truth is simple: ATS server is not up to the task to serve well. But it handles exceptionally well the task of filling your temp Internet files with garbage.

/end of bitching/ {3 words}

I don't see any views on the forums you linked there. I checked the top 3, and none of them have views listed. Why? Because he is telling the truth. I would call them out on it quickly if it wasn't the case.

You need to do some clicking to see the views. Here is forum ranked #3 - Nexopia - handling like 200,000 views.
www.nexopia.com...
On this site, you need to click on a particular topic to see the view counter.

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Just take a random sample, like 30 sites, and checked them out. But you need to click on a particular topic, otherwise you may miss.

There is a simple remedy to the problem:
www.karakas-online.de...


Well, maybe it's not that simple.

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[edit on 17-10-2008 by SkepticOverlord]

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord

Originally posted by stander
Aah, the owner's claim is way off. Anyone can check:
rankings.big-boards.com...

You forgot to sort by traffic...

No, I didn't forget; I wouldn't even consider it. You sort the list according to the page view -- that's what is being counted by the view counter -- not by traffic. But if you feel that the traffic rank has a negative influence on the view counter, then the top ranked Xboard should have a problem.
www.xboard.us...

It apparently doesn't.

The second board is Skyscraper City:
www.skyscrapercity.com...

No problems either. The same goes for Digital Spy:
www.digitalspy.co.uk...

What are you trying to prove by re-sorting the list according to the traffic rank?

Originally posted by stander
What are you trying to prove by re-sorting the list according to the traffic rank?

That we have very high traffic, and associated page-views.

Our Stats page confirms.

Our third-party Quantcast confirms, and shows we're higher-trafficked that SlashDot, which doesn't dynamically tally views.


Some very-high traffic boards do indeed tally views, but those are much more "mainstream" than we are, and have the benefit of more "mainstream" higher--paying advertisers as a result... but we have long since become much more than a "discussion board" and find ourselves often discussed amongst the same company as SlashDot, Digg, Reddit, and similar "user generated social content communities."


And finally... views really aren't the true measure of a topic's relative worth. Engagement (replies) and value (flags) are much more important metrics that define whether or not a given topic has inspired a response from the members of ATS... and both of those metrics are completely up to our members... where views can be both easily artificially inflated, as well as reporting false hits due to web spiders (over 120 different spiders hit us every day).

reply to post by Frankidealist35

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I actually thought this myself the other week when I noticed the views tally was stuck at 0 but I didn't make a thread about it because I didn't want to sound a little overly paranoid!

reply to post by Death_Kron

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What do you mean? You're on ATS.

Why wouldn't you be here if you weren't already too paranoid?

reply to post by SkepticOverlord

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