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Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:06 am

seeds wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:04 am

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:23 pm Yes, it makes no sense that it's bots. It must be people. Whitefish, Montana has a population just under 50,000 and I hear they're sensitive about nihilism. A Stooge couldn't be right about this one.

My guess is (and it's only a guess) that it has something to do with whenever you search for something on, for example, Google,...

(who has a registered bot on this site)

...at the top of the Google page, it states something like the following,...

"About 3,292,000 results (0.38 seconds)"

...which, to me, suggest that Google's search engine instantly probes pretty much the entire Internet (including our posts) for whatever keywords you may have loaded into the query box.

And as such, it counts (or tallies up) as a view of the thread.

So, for example, if thousands of people across the planet ask Google a question about, for example, "nihilism," or "God," or something else we might often discuss here on the forums,...

...Google simply finds the keyword in our posts and counts it as one of those 3,292,000 results achieved in 0.38 seconds, which, again, registers as a view on a thread.

Again, that's just a guess.
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I have no idea. I doubt 50,000 people visited one of Iambs threads in one day and it seems like he is beginning to doubt his stats, kudos for that.

I doubt most people here pop in and look at his threads (or anyone's threads). That even 500 people who do not post here would decide, Hey, let me go take a look at the latest posts in that philosophy forum seems incredibly unlikely.

We're entering the AI era - I hope it doesn't end us - and those things are scouring the internet for all sorts of reasons. You account seems reasonable to me, a layperson, clunking along on intuition.

seeds wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:34 pm Registered users: Ahrefs [Bot], Amazon [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], seeds [knucklehead], Semrush [Bot]

Now it might be nice (for our egos) to imagine that there are thousands of visitors coming here and gaining great wisdom from our silly conversations.

However, it seems obvious that those multiple mindless and dispassionate bots (acting on behalf of extremely busy search engines) are no doubt the real reason for most of the high view counts on various threads.
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Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:57 am people might be getting directed here by Google when they search for arguments for compatibilism.

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:56 pm

seeds wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:34 pm Registered users: Ahrefs [Bot], Amazon [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], seeds [knucklehead], Semrush [Bot]

Now it might be nice (for our egos) to imagine that there are thousands of visitors coming here and gaining great wisdom from our silly conversations.

However, it seems obvious that those multiple mindless and dispassionate bots (acting on behalf of extremely busy search engines) are no doubt the real reason for most of the high view counts on various threads.
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Sure. I just can't imagine 50,000 people lurking, so fascinated by the discussion in Compatibilism and too shy to participate.
Philosophy just ain't that popular.

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:06 pm

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:57 am people might be getting directed here by Google when they search for arguments for compatibilism.

If say 10 thousand people get directed to an iam thread, is the negative effect on humanity big enough to be measurable somehow?

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:18 pm Hey if we can buy Youtube views and subscribers, can we also buy 50k views for a thread here?

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:06 pm

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:57 am people might be getting directed here by Google when they search for arguments for compatibilism.

If say 10 thousand people get directed to an iam thread, is the negative effect on humanity big enough to be measurable somehow?

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:58 pm

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:18 pm Hey if we can buy Youtube views and subscribers, can we also buy 50k views for a thread here?

Sure, copy this code (works out of the box on any current Windows computer), change the 55 to 50000 and go make a cup of tea. It will be done when you get back.
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The thread I tested that on is a long ignored one about fruit flies from last July
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Before I ran that tiny code, the count was 896
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Now I added 35 to that count ....
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What does the thread say? Fucked if I know, I never opened it at all.

Come on, if my own posts were all of those things, how do you explain the fact that my threads/posts garner hundreds and hundreds of views a week.

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:08 pm
Cool! How much do you charge for 1 million views? I need 1 million views on Age's latest thread so she/he/it can claim that her secret audience from the future is closely monitoring her progress (using time travel).

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:18 pm Hey if we can buy Youtube views and subscribers, can we also buy 50k views for a thread here?

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:21 pm

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:08 pm
Cool! How much do you charge for 1 million views? I need 1 million views on Age's latest thread so she/he/it can claim that her secret audience from the future is closely monitoring her progress (using time travel).

Jokes on you, they already read it. They read it in the future.

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:49 am And Veritas' morality FSK, the one he calls proper, while not having intersubjective support now, will have it in the future he's told me.

Consider this, Age is VA come back from the future!!!!