What I would love to know is how many people read the page (and thus are on that blue graph above) who do not actively comment or post.
I think that the results might show that just because you're loud in the comments doesn't mean your point of view is more valid than someone who reads the page faithfully.
I don't comment often. (I learned that lesson!), but come here every day. Isn't the page mine, too, in a way?
I think Kimmie is on to something. I have never commented. The one thing that troubles me about the page is the bullying that a few active commenters take part in. I wouldn't comment JUST for that reason alone. But I love the postings.
I'm so glad someone mentioned this. I have gotten the feeling that the page really isn't for me over the past weeks.
It feels like there's a little group (you know who you are) who claim censorship by the evil genius Fab Sun (the greatest nickname I've ever heard), and then a handful of Sun "worshippers" who say, "Fab's okay."
Can't we get on with the misery? I don't want to comment, because I'm not interested in riling the cohort of bullies out there.
But I love reading the page, and feel the same as Scott and Kimmie above about it being my page, too.
At the beginning of the site, there was almost no email of any kind. Over the past month or so, however, the mail has increased to about 15-20 a day. MOST of that comes from folks I've never seen post or comment on the site. (I know this is NOTHING like the numbers RYS got, but it FEELS like a lot when you have a full time job, a devoted and needy family (LOL), a car that needs brakes, a mother-in-law entering her second week in the guest room, etc!
I do find it interesting that there are clearly quite a few folks reading the page who aren't commenting. I can literally write down the names of about 25 very active people on the site, but if we're getting 3000 unique visitors a day or so (or a little under), that must mean we have a larger community than could be estimated by simply reading the posts and comments.
I think that's great. I hope the page continues to grow so that our viewpoint gets out there to more folks in academe.
The tent, she no longer collapse!
ReplyDeleteI know this is a silly question. But is 20,000 unique weekly visitors a lot in blog terms?
ReplyDeleteWhat I would love to know is how many people read the page (and thus are on that blue graph above) who do not actively comment or post.
ReplyDeleteI think that the results might show that just because you're loud in the comments doesn't mean your point of view is more valid than someone who reads the page faithfully.
I don't comment often. (I learned that lesson!), but come here every day. Isn't the page mine, too, in a way?
I think Kimmie is on to something. I have never commented. The one thing that troubles me about the page is the bullying that a few active commenters take part in. I wouldn't comment JUST for that reason alone. But I love the postings.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad someone mentioned this. I have gotten the feeling that the page really isn't for me over the past weeks.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like there's a little group (you know who you are) who claim censorship by the evil genius Fab Sun (the greatest nickname I've ever heard), and then a handful of Sun "worshippers" who say, "Fab's okay."
Can't we get on with the misery? I don't want to comment, because I'm not interested in riling the cohort of bullies out there.
But I love reading the page, and feel the same as Scott and Kimmie above about it being my page, too.
At the beginning of the site, there was almost no email of any kind. Over the past month or so, however, the mail has increased to about 15-20 a day. MOST of that comes from folks I've never seen post or comment on the site. (I know this is NOTHING like the numbers RYS got, but it FEELS like a lot when you have a full time job, a devoted and needy family (LOL), a car that needs brakes, a mother-in-law entering her second week in the guest room, etc!
ReplyDeleteI do find it interesting that there are clearly quite a few folks reading the page who aren't commenting. I can literally write down the names of about 25 very active people on the site, but if we're getting 3000 unique visitors a day or so (or a little under), that must mean we have a larger community than could be estimated by simply reading the posts and comments.
I think that's great. I hope the page continues to grow so that our viewpoint gets out there to more folks in academe.
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