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Too many BOTs replying?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: chijb55 on August 11, 2024, 10:18:28 am ---This has long been my goto site for Arcade Building. But doing the math, our collective response rate (replies/views) is only 0.3% (for "Normal Topics".) This based on page 1 data for "Normal Topics", with a total of 126443 VIEWS and only 452 REPLIES.
Are we just seeing a flood of automated/BOT "VIEWS", which skews the response rate? Wondering if maybe this community here isn't nearly as large as the VIEWS would imply.
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I think to find the answer to this is to simply take a minute to look inward. Based on your profile, you registered on the site 2 full years ago, yet the only time you have ever posted was the recent post you made asking a question and then this post when it it wasn't quickly answered.
Surely you must have learned something during those two years and could have helped out one of the "know nothing about a topic" folks who asked questions :)
pbj:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 11, 2024, 03:21:50 pm ---they don't want to deal with blowback from some of the cranky old farts. ::)
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He's talking about you, Randy.
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Zebidee:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 11, 2024, 03:21:50 pm ---There are also lots of lurkers who read posts but either don't feel the need to reply or they don't want to deal with blowback from some of the cranky old farts. ::)
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This is the funniest thing I've read all week :) Also very true.
It takes some guts to post, at least the first few times. It also takes some skill and thought to make a GOOD post - one that gets your message/question/need across. Enough background/context, but not boring. Motivating helpful people to respond - without waking the trolls.
On the other hand, sometimes people make posts demonstrating a complete lack of thought or effort or research into questions/ideas that an online search could probably answer, while providing very little context/background info. Nobody wants to waste their time responding if the OP invests so little themselves. Nobody wants to ask the obvious questions about details left out. If you DO help, you may either get burned or get pulled into a time-sucking vortex. It's poison. Nobody cares, nobody responds. At best it is troll-bait.
Reminds me of the classic Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969). I still don't know if Bambi or Godzilla was in the right (or wrong), and I still don't care. If you haven't seen this movie then make a spare 2 minutes and grab some popcorn.
abispac:
This is my all time favorite site, i don't build to many cabs anymore but I am still here every day to see if I can help something if I see something I can help, ill answer right away, but I'm not very smart an some topics, that's why I cant help much. The site is slowly dying , as most of us are old now, and younglings don't care much about this hobby. Hey I'm still amazed on how mame still gets updated it. I remember when I thought after mame .99 it was gonna be mame 1.0 but no.
Ond:
I'm a little bit shy but I'll try and work up the courage to post something.
Bot views huh? well that explains those 6 digit views on some of my projects over the years, I always wondered about that...
This thread just tipped me past should I? / shouldn't I?
Too bad if you don't like a flurry of OND content, bots git ready...