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Do "Regulars" Hang Out On "Who's Online"?
| View Poll Results: Do You Visit "Who's Online"? | |||
| Yes, to see other members currently online. |     | 7 | 38.89% |
| Yes. I like to see who might be viewing my posts. |    | 2 | 11.11% |
| No. What is "Who's Online"? |    | 8 | 44.44% |
| Other. |    | 1 | 5.56% |
| Voters: 18. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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I voted No. I swing through the forum, reply to stuff, check it when I'm done to see if someone was replying while I was doing other stuff, then leave for a while.
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I'm still not understanding the point of this thread. In your first post, Dave, you stated something about the who's online feature lacking, but when I asked what that meant you said 'patience'. So what's the point of this thread other to say you think is a fault somewhere but you won't tell me what it is?
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I see a difference. But that may just be me.
And by 'patience' I was referring the my usual 16 hours offline.
And by 'patience' I was referring the my usual 16 hours offline.
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Question: what is the bloody difference if a guest arrived at a thread you are subscribed to from a search engine or if a search engine spider is crawling a thread you are subscribed to?
If you want to see if anybody has posted to threads you're subscribed to, you can see that listing here: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/subscr...ewsubscription
But DaniWeb gets millions upon millions upon millions of visitors every month with the average thread receiving from a couple hundred to a couple thousand visitors. So how exactly does it improve your experience on DaniWeb or your interaction with the DaniWeb community by seeing that some anonymous visitor or search engine spider is currently viewing a thread that has already received hundreds of views and is destined to receive hundreds more?
To me, the main focus is seeing if and when people reply to posts in threads you're interested in ... not necessarily just viewing them. You see, posting in a thread expresses interest in the thread. Simply viewing a thread signifies nothing - they could have randomly arrived at the thread from a search engine, they could be using the 'view previous / next threads in forum' links, and they could be one of those people who clicks on 100 different threads an hour, with no interest in more than a small handful of them.
If you want to see if anybody has posted to threads you're subscribed to, you can see that listing here: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/subscr...ewsubscription
But DaniWeb gets millions upon millions upon millions of visitors every month with the average thread receiving from a couple hundred to a couple thousand visitors. So how exactly does it improve your experience on DaniWeb or your interaction with the DaniWeb community by seeing that some anonymous visitor or search engine spider is currently viewing a thread that has already received hundreds of views and is destined to receive hundreds more?
To me, the main focus is seeing if and when people reply to posts in threads you're interested in ... not necessarily just viewing them. You see, posting in a thread expresses interest in the thread. Simply viewing a thread signifies nothing - they could have randomly arrived at the thread from a search engine, they could be using the 'view previous / next threads in forum' links, and they could be one of those people who clicks on 100 different threads an hour, with no interest in more than a small handful of them.
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Question: what is the bloody difference if a guest arrived at a thread you are subscribed to from a search engine or if a search engine spider is crawling a thread you are subscribed to?
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To me, the main focus is seeing if and when people reply to posts in threads you're interested in ... not necessarily just viewing them.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Originally Posted by cscgal 
Question: what is the bloody difference if a guest arrived at a thread you are subscribed to from a search engine or if a search engine spider is crawling a thread you are subscribed to?
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Originally Posted by cscgal
If you want to see if anybody has posted to threads you're subscribed to, you can see that listing here: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/subscr...ewsubscription
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Originally Posted by cscgal
But DaniWeb gets millions upon millions upon millions of visitors every month with the average thread receiving from a couple hundred to a couple thousand visitors. So how exactly does it improve your experience on DaniWeb or your interaction with the DaniWeb community by seeing that some anonymous visitor or search engine spider is currently viewing a thread that has already received hundreds of views and is destined to receive hundreds more?
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Originally Posted by cscgal
To me, the main focus is seeing if and when people reply to posts in threads you're interested in ... not necessarily just viewing them. You see, posting in a thread expresses interest in the thread. Simply viewing a thread signifies nothing - they could have randomly arrived at the thread from a search engine, they could be using the 'view previous / next threads in forum' links, and they could be one of those people who clicks on 100 different threads an hour, with no interest in more than a small handful of them.
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Originally Posted by Dave Sinkula
Experience. A guest may have ambled on something -- which is cool. Spiders tend to be triggered by fresh responses, so if one of them is triggered, chances are good that it is back in play.
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Is this still a shot-down idea? (Just checking and following up.)
"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
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You seem to mistakingly believe that the little icons on cprogramming illustrate threads that you've posted in. They don't.
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Well, I've got a heckuva lotta subscribed threads here that I wish I could see marked similarly.
Last edited by Dave Sinkula; Feb 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pm.
"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
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