the views on one of my topics on the religion forum has decreased from over 8,000 views to about 4,000 views lately. what could this mean?

lwkmd. ive never heard of such a complaint b4. what i know can decrease is posts and not views

bugs or hacker/s.


it happens every now and then.

toba:

lwkmd. ive never heard of such a complaint b4. what i know can decrease is posts and not views

am not mincing words. i was surprised to see it some minutes ago. the page views for that particular topic reduced by half

hmmmm

got it!

It's my doing. I divided the view count of all threads by two to allow new threads to progress beyond old ones.

^Why should you do that without consulting and getting express permission from us . . .The shareholders   

You'd get Punished for that.

@OP,so like seriously,you took note of your thread[i] views,no of replies et all [/i]?haha

Mtchew! I think say Boko harams don reach Nairaland.

Mtchew! I think say Boko harams don reach Nairaland.

ifyalways:

^Why should you do that without consulting and getting express permission from us . . .The shareholders   

You'd get Punished for that.

@OP,so like seriously,you took note of your thread[i] views,no of replies et all [/i]?haha

u beat me to this

anywys, sup, long tym

Even my post in NL is decreasing instead of increasing

from 5419 to 39

@Seun

Why do you want new threads to progress beyond old ones?

Seun:

It's my doing. I divided the view count of all threads by two to allow new threads to progress beyond old ones.

does this really sound reasonable

^Yes. As for me, I usually look at posts per view. The higher they're, the more interesting the topic is. USE YOUR HEAD!

For example, if you see a topic with 1000 views and 3 replies, what does that tell you?

Seun:

It's my doing. I divided the view count of all threads by two to allow new threads to progress beyond old ones.

[size=20pt] On what standard did you base your action? I also experienced the same thing with my topic: view count fell from ~ 10000 to ~5000. I have never heard or seen that done anywhere. Imagine youtube, facebook, etc. doing the same. I think you should reverse that action immediately with apologies. That action is capable of eroding the integrity of this forum, causing unnecessary confusion, and also alienating some users. Interesting topics will always sell themselves. [/size]

If that is the case, does it mean this thread actually has 962 views? (current no. of views X 2)

Seun, I know that you meant well but in real life things like what you did was what made some leaders to commit corporate genocides and unspeakable crimes against humanity!

I am not condemning you in anyway because you are doing what most of Nigerians have never attempted to do.

You have been a light bearer in our generation BUT please take note my brother and let things take their natural course.

I plan to do this just once a year.

The view count of a thread will therefore approximate the popularity of a thread in the last two years.

Old threads not currently drawing any views will gradually fall to the bottom.

@seun, the same way you changed my display name from 'official' to 'mr official' without my consent. And giving me flimsy reason.

It's not a big deal. The top thread before remains the top thread now. Relative counts are still the same.

seriously seun u are the forum owner but u need to be apprehensive at times else it would be seen as u doing the bossy thing or infringing on our right. theres a post of mine u edited without my consent and u erred seriously. in the European football section, u edited my post on Lionel messi winning the uefa player of the year and u posted another source in the op, wheres my post was culled from a different site. when i first saw the modification, i thought my password was hacked before, i used a device to discover that u were behind the modification. i have never seen such a thing before

I'm sorry about that. I like to clean up home page threads, for the greater good. It's better than locking.

@Seun. I didn't know our posts or threads could be modified without our consent. I can understand wayward posters being put in check to keep the integrity of the site (which is in high esteem as far as I'm concerned), but what actually is the criteria for modification and why can't the thread originators be notified of any actions being done on their posts/threads. I haven't noticed anything of the sort on my thread, but you never know when it might happen. Just wanted to be more educated on the issue.

Above issue aside, nairaland is[b] IT!!![/b]

no problem. may be one in a while u can provide a platform for forum members to air their opinions regarding intended changes or changes already noticed. i know its not easy for u to be every where but at least the ones u can attend to or delegate to mukina2 who is also doing a very very good job in attending to issues on the forum. cheers

Seun:

I plan to do this just once a year.

The view count of a thread will therefore approximate the popularity of a thread in the last two years.

Old threads not currently drawing any views will gradually fall to the bottom.

In that case, why don't you track "Unique Visits" to each tread to measure popularity. Unique visits tells you how many people viewed the thread not how many times it was viewed. Its a more accurate measurement of popularity than simply dividing number of views by 2. How?

For instance, if one users views a thread 40 times it only counts as 1 unique Visit. So you can quickly see the threads that more people or users viewed. "Replies" then gives you a sense of how many times people/users make comments.

atasteve:

Seun, I know that you meant well but in real life things like what you did was what made some leaders to commit corporate genocides and unspeakable crimes against humanity!

I am not condemning you in anyway because you are doing what most of Nigerians have never attempted to do.

You have been a light bearer in our generation BUT please take note my brother and let things take their natural course.

Really?

Geno. . .I mean really?!!

LMFAO! Osirisiri!!

ifyalways:

^Why should you do that without consulting and getting express permission from us . . .The shareholders   

You'd get Punished for that.

@OP,so like seriously,you took note of your thread[i] views,no of replies et all [/i]?haha

ifyalways:

^Why should you do that without consulting and getting express permission from us . . .The shareholders   

You'd get Punished for that.

@OP,so like seriously,you took note of your thread[i] views,no of replies et all [/i]?haha

u dont know that the most important thread in nairaland is the one uploaded by the poster to him

Out of every poster here, someone is an e-diot!

Caramba!

Hmmmmmm

Yeah, noticed the view count on another thread went from 29k to 14500. 

Seun:

It's my doing. I divided the view count of all threads by two to allow new threads to progress beyond old ones.

:::Shrug:::