Crazy

[Senna Jawa]

Suddenly 17 poems which were posted in 2005 are among the top 60 most read; and none on the 61-100 places. Moreover, all of them but one, i.e. 16 of them were posted on 2005, Nov. 29 or later (only that earlier one was on the list five days ago). They have supposedly scored from 26477to 96117 reads.

A week ago, perhaps 5 or 4 days ago or even later, there was only one poem from 2005, which made it to the top 100 most read poems on Literotica. (I know because it overtook my own 'round... and pushed it down from 45th place to 46th; it has happened on 2006, Jan 3/4. Thus a couple of days later I checked "the battle of the years", i.e. the stats from the top 100 most read poems according to the year in which they were posted; I was thinking then about presenting my stat findings here).

Right now the 100th most read poem has 20362 reads, and it had somewhat less a week or four days ago. The poem in the 3rd place was not on the list a few days ago. It has now 96117 reads. Thus in less than a week, perhaps in 4 or less days, it gained almost 76000 (76 thousands) reads, perhaps more than 76K, which means more than ten thousands reads per day, most likely still much more than that.

All this is nonsense.

I've seen Literotica's interference--kicking the read numbers up--in the past but now it's beyond any pretense.

I am sorry because it was the only stat on Literotica which was interesting or had any value, so I enjoyed it. Now even this last one is taken away completely.

(BTW, some poems posted before 2005 also suddenly jumped in onto the list, above 75th place, while they were not there a few days ago; the posting days of the seventeen 2005 poems are 11/29, 11/30 and 12/01, plus one 12/11 and one 08/14. Thus 15 supposedly superfast poems were all posted in three days 11/29-12-01; each of the seventeen is assigned to a different account).

 

[Maria2394]

Hi Senna Jawa

I also am sorry, because statistics are supposed to be something that is reliable. Now my faith in the iuniverse is totally gone

Good to see you around and kicking!!

hugs,

maria

 

[annaswirls]

So whatsa problem SJ, you think it is improbable that a poem up for a month without any comments got almost 40,000 hits?



math is not my strong suit.... but...eh hem

and damn, if things are gonna be fucked up at LEAST be fucked up in my favor. sheesh

I wanna get 10,000 reads a day damn it!
I wonder if you get some kind of rug burn from getting read that many times so quickly

 

[Maria2394]

Senna,

I am curious. Who benefits, if anyone, from the read numbers being inflated? I have not looked at those pages in so long I couldnt tell you who or what is on there. MAybe it is just the software giving those who do look something to ruminate on?

 

[Guest]

< snip > All this is nonsense. </snip >

Indeed.

 

[TheRainMan]

Indeed.

... X 12

 

[Guest]

Ooops - wrong thread.

 

[wildsweetone]

good grief, those top lists still exist?

 

[TheRainMan]

Ooops - wrong thread.

....throw some statistics in.

 

[flyguy69]

....

I am sorry because it was the only stat on Literotica which was interesting or had any value, so I enjoyed it. Now even this last one is taken away completely.
....

Yeah, I just read it for the stats, too.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Senna,

I am curious. Who benefits, if anyone, from the read numbers being inflated? I have not looked at those pages in so long I couldnt tell you who or what is on there. MAybe it is just the software giving those who do look something to ruminate on?

I don't know anything about who is messing up the stats for a fact. Literotica may be trying to impress its sponsor by presenting the stats of its supposed huge readership, supposedly greater than at other places. There were several fictitious injections of the reads also in the past, but not on such a scale.

There is a very remote possibility that a few guys found a way to up the number of reads just for a joke. It's even possible that there are only a coupple of authors who got those sudden high read-scores, not 17, but I doubt it. Especially that it seems to me that a couple of old poems also got an injection of 20k to 40K of fictitious reads.

Most likely Literotica tried to make a consecutive small scale intervention, (in the past they had periods lasting a few days when they would add 200 to 2000 phony reads to some poems, in a few installments in the case of larger increases, say above 400). So, most likely this time the Literotica programmer messed up. Instead of a reasonable fraud, s/he has committed an outrageous fraud. That would be my guess. Most likely the idea was to give the new, 2005 poems, more visibility, thus impressing the sponsors and newcomers, like saying: look, this place is dynamic!

Why do I bother to write you about this?

Well, you don't want me to write about poetry, right? This is a porno place, not a serious place for artists, right?

Also, those read-scores were to me like a soccer league, I liked to follow the results, to see who is overcoming whom, how the young fellows/teams/poems are doing... I even had my own modest team, I mean a poem, which got as high as 45th place. It became one of the senior guys, resisting the younger generations but doomed to retire sooner or later. The place on the most read poems was more like a place on all time NBA records rather than a league results. All the same, the old guys are overtaken by the new ones. To me it was fun. Not a big deal but nevertheless, and it was a better trivia item than rankings/grades 1-5. What else was Lit(tl)erotica poetry forum good for? That was about it.

 

[tarablackwood22]

Why do I bother to write you about this?

Slow night at the cloisters?

 

[Senna Jawa]

Slow night at the cloisters?

In your case it is a permanent state, EVERY night.

 

[tarablackwood22]

In your case it is a permanent state, EVERY night.

Awww, did I get Senna upset?

 

[Senna Jawa]

Awww, did I get Senna upset?

You're silly and giving yourself way too much credit.

 

[jthserra]

I don't know anything about who is messing up the stats for a fact. Literotica may be trying to impress its sponsor by presenting the stats of its supposed huge readership, supposedly greater than at other places. There were several fictitious injections of the reads also in the past, but not on such a scale.

There is a very remote possibility that a few guys found a way to up the number of reads just for a joke. It's even possible that there are only a coupple of authors who got those sudden high read-scores, not 17, but I doubt it. Especially that it seems to me that a couple of old poems also got an injection of 20k to 40K of fictitious reads.

Most likely Literotica tried to make a consecutive small scale intervention, (in the past they had periods lasting a few days when they would add 200 to 2000 phony reads to some poems, in a few installments in the case of larger increases, say above 400). So, most likely this time the Literotica programmer messed up. Instead of a reasonable fraud, s/he has committed an outrageous fraud. That would be my guess. Most likely the idea was to give the new, 2005 poems, more visibility, thus impressing the sponsors and newcomers, like saying: look, this place is dynamic!

Why do I bother to write you about this?

Well, you don't want me to write about poetry, right? This is a porno place, not a serious place for artists, right?

Also, those read-scores were to me like a soccer league, I liked to follow the results, to see who is overcoming whom, how the young fellows/teams/poems are doing... I even had my own modest team, I mean a poem, which got as high as 45th place. It became one of the senior guys, resisting the younger generations but doomed to retire sooner or later. The place on the most read poems was more like a place on all time NBA records rather than a league results. All the same, the old guys are overtaken by the new ones. To me it was fun. Not a big deal but nevertheless, and it was a better trivia item than rankings/grades 1-5. What else was Lit(tl)erotica poetry forum good for? That was about it.

Prior to the addition of the 17 poems, two of mine had appeared on the list, which always confused me, since, other than those two poems with approximately 24,000 and 42,000 reads, the most my poems could pull was maybe 3,000 to 4,000 reads. I always figured there was an outside link to those poems and that was the reason for the big numbers.

Another of my poems, one posted on 11/30/05 suddenly showed 26,000 reads, with no visible increase in any of my others. I wonder if perhaps again there are some outside links feeding the reading frenzy. Perhaps a lit is advertising with links to some poems. That's the only thing I could think of, besides a glitch in the counting system. Either that or someone has spent a lot of time clicking on my poem again and again.

All the reads come without any increase in votes... the three poems mentioned above may have 2 or 3 votes each.

jim : )

 

[Maria2394]

I don't know anything about who is messing up the stats for a fact. Literotica may be trying to impress its sponsor by presenting the stats of its supposed huge readership, supposedly greater than at other places. There were several fictitious injections of the reads also in the past, but not on such a scale.

There is a very remote possibility that a few guys found a way to up the number of reads just for a joke. It's even possible that there are only a coupple of authors who got those sudden high read-scores, not 17, but I doubt it. Especially that it seems to me that a couple of old poems also got an injection of 20k to 40K of fictitious reads.

Most likely Literotica tried to make a consecutive small scale intervention, (in the past they had periods lasting a few days when they would add 200 to 2000 phony reads to some poems, in a few installments in the case of larger increases, say above 400). So, most likely this time the Literotica programmer messed up. Instead of a reasonable fraud, s/he has committed an outrageous fraud. That would be my guess. Most likely the idea was to give the new, 2005 poems, more visibility, thus impressing the sponsors and newcomers, like saying: look, this place is dynamic!

Why do I bother to write you about this?

Well, you don't want me to write about poetry, right? This is a porno place, not a serious place for artists, right?

Also, those read-scores were to me like a soccer league, I liked to follow the results, to see who is overcoming whom, how the young fellows/teams/poems are doing... I even had my own modest team, I mean a poem, which got as high as 45th place. It became one of the senior guys, resisting the younger generations but doomed to retire sooner or later. The place on the most read poems was more like a place on all time NBA records rather than a league results. All the same, the old guys are overtaken by the new ones. To me it was fun. Not a big deal but nevertheless, and it was a better trivia item than rankings/grades 1-5. What else was Lit(tl)erotica poetry forum good for? That was about it.

I like when you write about things like this. I enjoy trying to find patterns where there supposed to be none. I like when youwrite about poetry too, youjust donot do it much anymore

 

[SeattleRain]

I like when you write about things like this. I enjoy trying to find patterns where there supposed to be none. I like when youwrite about poetry too, youjust donot do it much anymore

I am guessing it is some glitch. In my site, I get to see a record of the bots that come through, searching for email addresses etc to suck up and spit out again as spam. It does not come up as a hit for my server, who knows, maybe it does here. If so then the curiosity would be why only some?

Jim has a good point about external links. We have talked about that before. I had a poem and link put on some singles site, without my knowledge, pretty bizarre. My poem was already down though.

I doubt that this was intentional. Who the heck has time to fuck things up on purpose?

 

[Senna Jawa]

Over 25K gain in one day

The poem which yesterday was in the 3rd or 4th place has advanced to the 2nd place, gaining in one day over 25K reads. Right now it has 121,513 reads (it
was posted on 2005-11-39).

 

[Tathagata]

Turn off the voting ,relax, and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying

 

[eagleyez]

Turn off the voting ,relax, and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying

*cue Sitar*

hiya Monkey man-my best as always.

 

[bogusbrig]

The poem which yesterday was in the 3rd or 4th place has advanced to the 2nd place, gaining in one day over 25K reads. Right now it has 121,513 reads (it
was posted on 2005-11-39).

But is it a good poem?

 

[Rybka]

The poem which yesterday was in the 3rd or 4th place has advanced to the 2nd place, gaining in one day over 25K reads. Right now it has 121,513 reads (it
was posted on 2005-11-39).

Now that is impossible! I doubt that the owners of Literotica are doing it. Unless you have reported it to them they may not even be aware of the problem. - It is more likely being done by a hacker.

 

[Maria2394]

But is it a good poem?

BB, dont you know?? Good is subjective wrong thread

 

[anonamouse]

Suddenly 17 poems which were posted in 2005 are among the top 60 most read; and none on the 61-100 places. Moreover, all of them but one, i.e. 16 of them were posted on 2005, Nov. 29 or later (only that earlier one was on the list five days ago). They have supposedly scored from 26477to 96117 reads.

A week ago, perhaps 5 or 4 days ago or even later, there was only one poem from 2005, which made it to the top 100 most read poems on Literotica. (I know because it overtook my own 'round... and pushed it down from 45th place to 46th; it has happened on 2006, Jan 3/4. Thus a couple of days later I checked "the battle of the years", i.e. the stats from the top 100 most read poems according to the year in which they were posted; I was thinking then about presenting my stat findings here).

Right now the 100th most read poem has 20362 reads, and it had somewhat less a week or four days ago. The poem in the 3rd place was not on the list a few days ago. It has now 96117 reads. Thus in less than a week, perhaps in 4 or less days, it gained almost 76000 (76 thousands) reads, perhaps more than 76K, which means more than ten thousands reads per day, most likely still much more than that.

All this is nonsense.

I've seen Literotica's interference--kicking the read numbers up--in the past but now it's beyond any pretense.

I am sorry because it was the only stat on Literotica which was interesting or had any value, so I enjoyed it. Now even this last one is taken away completely.

(BTW, some poems posted before 2005 also suddenly jumped in onto the list, above 75th place, while they were not there a few days ago; the posting days of the seventeen 2005 poems are 11/29, 11/30 and 12/01, plus one 12/11 and one 08/14. Thus 15 supposedly superfast poems were all posted in three days 11/29-12-01; each of the seventeen is assigned to a different account).

somebody must be moving their lips real fast...
must be one horrible sound
Glad to see you back, if only for this:
All this is nonsense.