Comments back on
Okay comments will appear automatically, as per normal (except for first time posters).
All I was interested in, is how much traffic comes from people reading the main posts, and how much from people checking back in to read the comments. So I’m going to look at what the traffic was for this Wednesday compared to the other days this week.
Due to server load the stats package only updates every Sunday, so I won’t have data until next week.
Despite no comments appearing, there were 185 comments made yesterday, which have now appeared. That is far more than I thought there would be considering all of them were just commenting on the main post, not debating other comments.
There are no plans to have a permament delay in comments appearing. While it does get raucous at times, I think it is good to have the debate.
January 17th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Although I understand your desire to have accurate statistics as to how many are visiting to see the subject and how many to read their posts, I greatly enjoyed not having to read disjointed ad hominem arguments.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Also, you threw your “competition” into confusion. According to them it means that KB has crashed and burned and you must immediately eliminate all your crazy right wing friends/commentors to try and save it and your place in the National hierarchy.
So, as a psychological tool it was quite successful.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:18 am
What a great idea that was, David. Your blog has become readable. I suggest you make it the norm from Monday 0900 through to Friday 1700. This will allow the unionists to spend some time looking after the affairs of their members.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Grant, I agree. It was pleasant to be able to read coherent posts without trawling through garbage, of unintelligible remarks and just plain ridiculous personal attacks coming from both sides of the fence. I look forward to seeing those stats!
January 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
The debate is useful – well yes except for the fact that there tends to be a flame war between 2-4 individuals overwhelming the actual debate. A compromise could be to have comments only update every couple of hours.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Or to police those individuals more closely – maybe once you have been banned once you get less leeway in future (kind of a parole period)? Sometimes it is nice that discussions move quickly and interesting things are covered. Sometimes things go off topic a bit but are still interesting. And sometimes we just get some drivel from the usual suspects saying “did so”, “did not”.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I enjoyed reading without Tane, Sonic and co thread-jacking.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I haven’t read all of the comments on all of your posts yesterday as some of them were of no interest to me. The good thing about those I did read was that comments related to the basic post, were mainly logical and there was virtually no sidetracking and no vindictive arguing.
I liked it.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:32 am
The idea of a delay in comments appearing so the flamewars don’t get out of control has some merit. But no way to automate that and I really don’t want to me having to go in every hour and manually releasing comments.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Your forced quarantine just moved the numptys from the axis of stupid onto the other blogs for the day David.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:27 am
What Bill said. Did you notice the pent-up faux-outrage on the day after?
It was kinda weird… Clearly some of our posters need to get their release every day, or else they start to get antsy.