just a meaningless observation
 

I've noticed over the last few days how many posts have a responce one less than that read.

I mean 10 people are listed as having read a thread and 9 people have posted a reply.

Strange.

(I don't expect this useless thread to be one of them)

I've actually noticed that too, flat. Odd.

I always thought it was because when you post the thread, you (the thread starter) clock up the first view, so you will always have at least that one view before anyone else takes a look, and they add up from there.

Wow, your right... weird...

That is exactly why...

it's magic. don't question it else you ruin the illusion.

this shows how great the TFP community is. there aren't that many lurkers sucking up bandwith, everyone contributes that views a thread!

Excellent, my powers of deduction still work :D

Well I was just going to read this thread without posting a reply, but then I'd ruin the numbers.
So here you go.

I viewed this thread before there were any replies and I didn't post, but it kept being one more view than reply, so I don't know that the posters original view is what does it.

I first noticed it in the Lit forum.. it seems the view counter for views only are not getting recorded for some reason, so the 1 off is the first poster then subsequent replies.

It's me, sorry. Lately I've been taking one look at a thread and then smirking smugly to myself rather than posting.

I'll stop that now.

I have been seeing 0 views and multiple responses. Just figure Stephen Hawking will give a pop science answer I can swallow whole and get on with my TFPing.

Ha! I read the thread without posting just to mess up the numbers!

...no, wait a second... damn. Nevermind.

I do believe, dear sir, that this means the world is spinning out of control and will soon crash into the sun. :cool:

Phew. Thanks TM875. Some of those pop science things are actually still a bit opaque for me. Thankyou for the clarity :thumbsup:

uh . . . but -

oh to hell with it

I hate it when a thread has 19275 views and two replies... so here's my reply. Cheers!

But it also means that every time someone views the thread, they post.

Well I don't want to ruin the numbers... so here's my reply (however weak it may be).

Titty board is a good example

I, like redlemon, read this without posting a reply.

Ah now I had to post.

How true...20,000 one handed viewings, and a few one handed posts.. :lol:

I was under the impression that the Titty Board is unique - almost every viewer has a post - and the "post" is at the viewers end :lol: leading to such skewed numbers here in the host site end.

If the TB required a webcam feed to allow return access, the demographic of TFP would quite possibly "swing" wildly in as yet uncharted directions, what with the webcam showing just how the "posts" are handled by the exhibition of the unlurked masses.

you think you're seeing a response here.....but you really arent....move along now

The thread is presently listing at 24/25. I've been into the thread several times, but only (with this post) posted twice. So, apparently, each person only counts for one view. Cool, I never knew (or thought about) that.

have you tried logging out and logging back and in viewing it without posting to see if the numbers change?

Just did.
The view stays the same.
Unless you post. Then both are incremented.

yeah I tried it too....ahhh the mysteries of life and the internet

Hmm. I viewed then backed out then came back several times before posting this and the numbers stayed the same. It's thread voodoo, I tell you.

Not sure what to say here, just didn't want to be the one to break the chain. A very interesting observation, one that might not ever have an answer.

tis the work of the devil I tells ya!

It's probably because you post a thread, which doesn't count as a reply, but you look at it after you post it, which counts as a view. :hmm:

I can view the thread many times. It does not change the view count unless I post again. As it says above.

To find out more about this, we would have to read the manual for the VBUlletin V3.0.3
software :-)

Pretty freaky stuff. It should be in Tilted Paranoia. :hmm:

You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. You have crossed over into the Twilight Forum!!

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that scared the shit out of me.

Your not the only one!

Wouldn't want to ruin the numbers...

Oh how I regret clicking this link!