Stumbled Upon

February 21st, 2008
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Hooooly cow. Can you spot the StumbleUpon traffic? I can. Over the last few days I’ve seen my counters shoot up. Approximately 16,000 unique visitors hit that second round of lolcats that I posted 2 weeks ago. What gets me is that out of that number, 35 people “liked” it and a few disliked it. 9 people (so far) have written reviews. I think 5 are positive (including my own…) and 4 are negative. And by negative I mean filled with an incredible vitriolic hatred similar to that found in YouTube comments. Why bother putting extra effort into announcing that you deplore a site you randomly came upon? Got me. But it sure is classy. It’s nice to get a head check once in a while, when I start feeling the urge to try and court the likes and dislikes of the internet. I’m glad I remembered that I don’t blog for popularity. Ha ha. There are just waaay too many people out there with whom I disagree. And it’s absurd to fight that flow. Ha ha. In case you haven’t seen it, this comic frame encapsulates it.

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  • I'm relieved as well!

    claytonian's last blog post: Fight!
  • To Tom vis Deas's Blog:

    "I was thinking, maybe you could just shove your writings under this box ... that way just as many people would read it. But you'd save a fortune on Internet connection fees"

    Kidding of course. I just happened to read this in one of my comic books recently and found it fitting.

    Nicole's last blog post: Let?s Date With Me!
  • Clay - Thanks for the clarification! ::flooded with relief::
  • No, Deas, I meant the exact opposite! I was speaking in the voice of an ignoramus that would say you were asking for criticism merely by posting. Everyone knows that "the victim was asking for it" is a bad arguement; that's my point!

    claytonian's last blog post: The February pandemic
  • Chris G - Good luck with the new blog! I think your fishing analogy is rather accurate, too, by the way. It really fits.
  • XKCD is gold.

    I've just started my blog so I get about 5 hits a day. I would get excited if they went above 50 but I'm blogging mostly for myself. I want to keep a history of my study of Japanese and maybe it will help someone else learn. As you say, it's just human nature to want visitors.

    It's like fishing. Throw out a big juicy "Top 10 [something]" or "[something] lolcats" article once in a while and you might just hook yourself a quality visitor who stays and posts interesting comments. I reckon there's no harm in that. Unless you eat what you catch....

    ChrisG's last blog post: A method for learning Japanese
  • Tom - Sorry, missed your comment there. I don't really do anything special. I post about weird stuff, and people show up sometimes. (And, as is now obvious, sometimes they show up to jump all over me for being silly.) I dunno. :-) Visited your blog, by the way. Nice.
  • Alex - Yeah, I'm starting to feel that way myself. I guess I like the core group of consistent commenting readers, and then once in a while I like to post something random that might be of interest to a larger audience. But yeah, I don't aspire to anything bigger than now. It's just about right.

    Clay - I am uncomfortable with your comment, because it seems to me that you are (unintentionally) excusing rapists if their victims were scantily clad. I'm of the opinion that rape is always, in all circumstances, wrong. So....yeah. So far as the blog goes, I don't mind the traffic - I was just surprised by it and some of the colorful comments that came with it. I guess I'm saying that blog avalanches you can bring on yourself - like I did, but rape is wrong even when the victim is being provocative. See what I mean?
  • If you don't want to be blog-raped don't wear such a short skirt!

    that is my general comment on commentors' attitudes this month

    claytonian's last blog post: The February pandemic
  • Tom
    Holy cow. If I get visitors in the double digits it’s been a good day.

    How the devil do you do it Deas?

    Tom's last blog post: 39th
  • I think it's better with a tighter community of readers, personally, so that everyone involved in the conversation can have their say, and it's easily visible to all the rest. It's fun to participate at a site like japanprobe.com, but when there are threads with 50+ comments, I don't know what's going on with the conversation anymore, and you've got the "trolls", of course, who are just there to get a rile out of others.

    Alex's last blog post: Contradiction in Advertising
  • Clay - I saw that video you posted about how many subscribers you've got...and how many you want.... Ha ha. Less worry, maybe, but still. :-)

    Chuck - Fair enough - but I only submitted one of the two entries that got the traffic. And...in my own defense...I said I'm glad I remembered that I don't blog for popularity - which implies that I needed to be reminded. It happens. Of course I want to be read (and liked), I'm human. Well, mostly human. :-P
  • heh, "don't blog for popularity"

    if that were true, Deas, you wouldn't have tossed your website in to all those sites to get more traffic. Everyone wants to be read. It's natural.

    Nicole's last blog post: A Naked Festival of Purity
  • don't even have a way to check my site statistics, which will probably make for less worry in the long run.

    claytonian's last blog post: The biggest LOST event ever!
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