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Posted on 01/18/2011 9:22:15 AM PST by bezelbub
At www.freerepublic.com, we find the question Who reads FR? to be answered in the following way:
Over 300,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic since inception in 1996 and our forum is read daily by over one hundred thousand freedom loving citizens and patriots from all around the country, and all around the world. We're currently delivering over thirty million pageviews per month to over one million visitors.This number of 300,000 users is sometimes quoted (i.e., "On one conservative Web site, Freerepublic.com, some of the site's 300,000 registered users have recently used discussion threads to encourage votes for Bristol." - www.people.com), and adorns the front page of freerepublic since Dec 2008 (waybackmachine.com).
Just for the record: I think that the number of pageviews and visitors are correct. And I doubt that the makers of the site willingly inflated the numbers of created accounts. It seems to be just an honest mistake, and an easy one to make. But when they found the bug, wouldn't it have been the right thing to change the number, as they knew that it was false?
I don't think your right in the head.
Impromptu fund raiser threads seem to be the order of the day!
100% agreement.
You forget the zots also decouple the actual number of users from the user ID numbers.
The real issue is: Who cares?
Hey, I grabbed a number on the “serving next” machine and it hasn’t appeared yet! When will I be served?
There sure isn't much HONEST about it either. When they admit upfront that it is their own blog...at least it's better than those who won't answer when asked directly --- "is this yours? Why post it here?", etc.
Its rather infuriating. It's like saying, hey, this forum isn't good enough for me other than to use it to drive readers to see what EYE have to say.
For those who do use this forum to promote their own blogs, then something more than a sentence or two would be helpful, like maybe a few paragraphs, enough to make a point, rather than just a "teaser". I hate that crap.
We've all been marketed to, all our lives. What those wishing to market their own product need to learn is, don't piss off the 'customer', nor those whom allow space in a market venue, itself.
All it would take is a little polite effort on their part, and possibly a few direct answers. BUT no-ooo, it's beneath many of them to speak with the plebeians. It's like, EYE talk-- you LISTEN!
It's enough to make me taking up chewing tobacco, so I could have something to spit in their "eye".
I think you're right. ;-)
touched base with Mrs. Dogood lately, eh?
Ah, but is it good enough for Travis McGee? :-)
Obviously, I do - and I thought you should...
The inactive accounts are people who registered screen names but never activated their accounts. Dont know if he still does it or not, but John used to purge the unactivated accounts after a month or so.
Indeed? Then he hasn't purged anything since Feb 2010, and/or the registration process has changed. OTOH, these purges have been quite selective, as thousands of obvious automatically generated spam accounts haven't been erased (have a look at all the accounts with "webcam" in the name), even before Feb 2010 (the month of the last purge).
We still have somewhere in the general neighborhood of 300,000 registered screen names.
If we are taking the same criterion as in Dec 2008 when the number was changed to 300,000 (i.e. ID numbers assigned), we have way surpassed the general neighborhood of 300,000 registered screen names. There are more than 370,000 ID numbers assigned. But at least 100,000 don't match editors who have completed the activation process. And I suppose that your technical team is well aware of this fact - at least since Feb 2010.
But of course, these are not the important figures. It was rightly stated that the number of page views and the number of unique visitors are quite more meaningful. And I don't doubt these numbers. But shouldn't we try to get every number on the main page right?
Sorry, what was the question again?
Who cares, sheesh. How many active accounts have signed up for your pissant blog? Maybe you should spend more time improving it.
If I recall correctly you work at the DPS in Bumwad, Indiana.
What do YOU know about anything?
I’m sorry, what was the question again?
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bezelbub
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> EXACTLY!! They aren't convinced of the propaganda they post.
To his credit, he eventually did show up and comment back. Unfortunately he seems to just want to make trouble, pushing a point that can best be described as the "Call of the Prey of the Viking Kitties".
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