2.2% of Posters on FreeRepublic Originate in India

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[TheThirdRuffian]

2.2% of page views of FreeRepublic originate from India, according to the Alexa website:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freerepublic.com

Now, I suppose there could be a contingent of loyal posters from India, but I strongly suspect this represents the hot houses we've all heard about of serial posters and disruptors who come out of the wood work, especially during primary season, to push a given candidate and then switch to "I'm not going to vote" mode come general.

Since there are apparently thousands of real Freepers from India, I encourage you to post here to dissuade me of what I feel certain is correct.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Guy who owns our gas station is the same. He frequently tells me how corrupt India is.

[grey_whiskers]

I would always laugh when I call computer "support" and the call is answered in India by a man, in broken English, saying his name is Johnny. I wish I said, "Hi Johnny. My name is Punjab!"

Is that offensive?

It works even better if you can say it in a BROAD Texas drawl -- "Howdy, Y'awl, I'm Krishnamurty."

[Axenolith]

A page view and a post are two entirely different things. You should correct that...

[Carthego delenda est]

That’s odd, evey one of them is named Kevin.

[PAR35]

I don't see many threads about Indians here, odd.

Or Cowboys, either.

[katana]

Can you wobble your head as you speak? That takes some practice.

[Lazamataz]

Hallo. My name is ‘Sam’. What is your good name? Have you tried reverting? Do one thing: You can reboot your country. Let us try for to do that!

[mad_as_he$$]

Winner!

[PROCON]

One troubling statistic:

Subdomain

Percent of Visitors

freerepublic.com 100.00%

secure.freerepublic.com 0.25%

It may not be completely accurate but it appears only 2 1/2% of users donate.

[Peter ODonnell]

I am not seeing what is exactly the problem you are having. By the way, your mister president is from a land I have visited many times, and is on the same ocean as my domicile, it is a little known fact.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Interesting, potentially-related story:

http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/donald-trump-facebook-likes/

There’s Something Odd About Donald Trump’s Facebook Page Donald Trump has more followers on Facebook than any other candidate, but most are from developing countries.

Donald Trump is running for president and whatever you think of his chances of picking up votes, on social media, few candidates trump The Donald.

Yet, there’s something strange about a lot of his online fans. Only 42 percent of Trump’s 1,694,561 followers on Facebook are American, while most come from developing nations like the Philippines, Malaysia, India, South Africa, Indonesia and Colombia, a Vocativ analysis shows.



What Trump does have is a large fan base in countries that researchers have deemed hubs for Facebook fraud. Specifically, they are home to “like farms”—services through which companies or individuals can buy Facebook likes using zombie accounts run by people who might be paid as little as $120 a year.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Hello Sam.

My name is Punjab. I would like assistance with hitting that.

[TheThirdRuffian]

On the bright side, perhaps that’s all in Rupees.

[McGruff]

What? I thought we were being overrun with Russians.

I know there’s a few Ukrainians here also.

[Grampa Dave]

It may not be completely accurate but it appears only 2 1/2% of users donate.

I hope the donor % level is not that low. In real life, 10-20 % of most organizations do 80-90% of the work or contribute financially in organizations like this.

[mass55th]

Some people use a VPN. I do on my desktop, but not on the laptop I use to access FR. Might their IP address be shown as originating from India, but actually originating from some other place? My VPN offers connection ability from all over the world.

[Nuc 1.1]

That’s less than the number of folks from India who want to help me fix Windows.

[TheThirdRuffian]

We did have a lot of Russians and Ukrainians, but they don’t even register. Same with Israelis.

It’s just obvious it’s a hot house operation.

[CatherineofAragon]

It’s probably a microaggression, but he likely has a safe space to retreat into.

[NYAmerican]

Not that there’s anything wrong with that......