# Why have 26,933 people viewed this other posting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316 "2010-09-10T18:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/1 "2010-09-10T18:21:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/2 "2010-09-10T18:28:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/3 "2010-09-10T18:41:21Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/4 "2010-09-10T19:30:13Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > I can’t imagine why 26,933 people, at last count, have looked at the thread > [@jayjay](#): > > It’s not 26,933 people. It’s 26,933 _views_ That’s what he said. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/5 "2010-09-10T19:36:35Z")
Nope. Only 23 people have viewed that thread, but we’ve each viewed it 1,171 times. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/6 "2010-09-10T19:36:40Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > > [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > > > I can’t imagine why 26,933 people, at last count, have looked at the thread > > > [@jayjay](#): > > > > It’s not 26,933 people. It’s 26,933 _views_ > > That’s what he said. 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. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/7 "2010-09-10T19:47:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/8 "2010-09-10T20:27:19Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > > [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > > > I can’t imagine why 26,933 people, at last count, have looked at the thread > > > [@jayjay](#): > > > > It’s not 26,933 people. It’s 26,933 _views_ > > That’s what he said. 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. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/9 "2010-09-10T22:41:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/10 "2010-09-11T18:16:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/11 "2010-09-12T04:03:01Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > 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? I’m curious as to why you can’t imagine why the thread would get 27k views. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/12 "2010-09-12T09:58:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > > [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > > > 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? > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/13 "2010-09-12T14:51:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-26-933-people-viewed-this-other-posting/553316/14 "2010-09-12T16:37:41Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > 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.