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Today(I will have to improvise here as because I am writing this I can't actually see what I intend writing about, so please bear with me) pipsqueak asked for a copy of the Evening Standard from Thursday.There were 3 posts,2 of which were by pip (pardon me if I didn't get your user name quite right but my short term memory if akin to that of a goldfish). There were over 250 views of this startling title of a thread (sorry pip, I know it was important to you and it had a happy ending, but in the greater scheme of things it wasn't hugely important).


Basically I would like to know if the ratio of posts on a thread to the number of views has a meaning? I don't get why the most clearly written subject matter, like pips or say 'does anyone know where to buy blue wool', gets so many views.


Any enlightening theories out there or even a formula to determine if people are just plain bloody 'nosey'?


PS I did look Pip and happened to have Monday,Wednesday and Friday but not Thursday.

In the lounge not all posts are what they seem.


A request for blue wool may reveal the reasons it has to be blue - "Any other colour makes me see red"

And what it's for - "I like bondage but I'm essentially gentle by nature"

Or may be to suck people in - "Blue wool fascists!"

Or even start a debate that goes on for pages - "Look, you moron, the wool vendor you have suggested uses child labour!" "Yes but if it's a really deep blue that is excusable in my book" "Are you BBW in disguise" etc, etc. - and entertains everyone.


I see the lounge as a suck-it-and-see arena and often view posts by rote rather than reading the title to see if it may appeal.


Anything as mundane and specific as the above should really have been in the 'wanted' section and would maybe not have gleaned as many views if it had been.


Now it's 3 - wanna bet on the final total?

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> You need to worry about why so many people read

> about wool!


This apparent pre-occupation with wool might be specific to residents of ED, or even just EDF-ers, as opposed to - say - forum users nationwide; and I'm sure you've allowed for this in your research.


I am SO looking forward to the publication of your results.



:))

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