I give up. I can’t imagine why 26,933 people, at last count, have looked at the thread “I don’t quite get today’s “Questionable Content” strip.” Any ideas?
It’s not 26,933 people. It’s 26,933 views. Given the length of the thread, and counting in lurkers at about 5 to 1 (at least), that’s not outside of plausibility. The webcomic in question is apparently read by quite a few people around here.
It has become a general, ongoing discussion thread about the strip, so naturally the strip’s fans check in daily. (I didn’t even follow the strip myself until that thread got me hooked.)
That’s what he said.
Nope. Only 23 people have viewed that thread, but we’ve each viewed it 1,171 times.
No, he said “26,933 people…looked at the thread.” I, for example, look at the thread whenever there’s a new post. So maybe, 5-6 times a day whenever it’s on the front page? The thread has also been going on since mid-April.
Very easily can get up to 26000 views.
Because I get $1 per view and kick back $0.25 to the viewer.
It’s the secret the SDMB admins don’t want you to know.
Views are views, not people. If 1 person looks at a thread 23 separate times, it racks up 23 views for that thread, not 1.
ETA: For instance, since this thread was posted this morning, the other thread in question has racked up another 600 views. That’s in less than 12 hours.
I keep checking it to see if it’s going to get back to the original topic–of not understanding something that is going on.
That’s what a lot of us do with those pit threads that start out with a real topic, then degenerate into partisanship or a nitpick session: “Hmmm, page 8 already, I wonder if anyone’s pulled the discussion back to… nope, still bickering.”
I’m curious as to why you can’t imagine why the thread would get 27k views.
Because topics which seem to be of much more general interest often top out at 500 or 600.
IMHO, the specialized topics can grow much larger than generalized topics. WoW, guitars, etc. It’s also helped by the fact that QC runs daily.
This. The thread’s about an ongoing webcomic, so it’s going to add new posts and new views pretty much every day or so as new strips come out.