There are statistics on SaSU how many views a thread has. Let's take an average thread with 3-4 replies. It has 150 views. How many people have read the thread who clicked on the thread? It might depend on the form of thread. Short threads with strong opinions get clicked well. Niche threads in essay form aren't appreciated enough. Also by myself.
I would say maybe 20% of the people who click on a thread also read it. There are many possible distortions. One single members can click on a thread 10-20 times. Distorting the statistics.
From my gut feeling there is something else that distorts the statistics. I noticed that scrolling through the sub-forum politics and philosophy. Look how many views these threads accumulate. Even the ones without any reply. You have the feeling there are threads with 600 or more clicks and noone actually took notice of them. This is why I think the clicks are generated by spiders and bots. It also doesn't make much sense. Why should threads about politicial incidents of the past be that popular? In the first few months they generate maybe 100-200 clicks. Then they become forgotten by the community. And it is like magic how these threads gain more and more clicks. Even without anyone who replies to them.
This is at least my theory. I cannot really compare it to other subforums. But it caught my attention with the politics & philosophy subforum.
I would say maybe 20% of the people who click on a thread also read it. There are many possible distortions. One single members can click on a thread 10-20 times. Distorting the statistics.
From my gut feeling there is something else that distorts the statistics. I noticed that scrolling through the sub-forum politics and philosophy. Look how many views these threads accumulate. Even the ones without any reply. You have the feeling there are threads with 600 or more clicks and noone actually took notice of them. This is why I think the clicks are generated by spiders and bots. It also doesn't make much sense. Why should threads about politicial incidents of the past be that popular? In the first few months they generate maybe 100-200 clicks. Then they become forgotten by the community. And it is like magic how these threads gain more and more clicks. Even without anyone who replies to them.
This is at least my theory. I cannot really compare it to other subforums. But it caught my attention with the politics & philosophy subforum.
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