Is this a record?

Idly browsing the forum just now I spotted this thread

https://www.excelforum.com/excel-gen...ruit-case.html

A thread with 6 posts, 4 of which are mere Admin type posts and unrelated to the actual question, one is the OP and the other JeteMc's substantial reply. Yet this has resulted in 1431 views.

Is this Views:Post ratio a record?

Oops, almost spoke too soon. This one is marginally bigger 3169:13 = 243.1
https://www.excelforum.com/excel-gen...rithmetic.html

...what is going on with these. This last one is not exactly a run of the mill Q.

I think there's something going on with the view count. There's one on the front page with 7 replies and over 10,000 views that was just necro'd after 4 months.

https://www.excelforum.com/excel-gen...available.html

I know exactly what it is (I think ...).

Any thread with something in its title that comes up a lot in Google searches (e.g. Fruit Case - seems to be a game of some sort) or in the body text (e.g. Excel 2016) will get a lot of hits and therefore views. These won't be forum members, but 'guests' who've chanced upon the thread when looking for something else.

Ahhh, that makes sense. I hadn't considered visitors from outside the forum counting as views.

That might explain the first one but I doubt that Multiplicative Inverse under modulo arithmetict would be top of the agenda for the man on the Clapham Omnibus - or even his younger sister on the Manchester Metro.

I think it's 'modulo', Richard.

Wait, what? All the British TV we Americans get tells me everyone across the pond talks exactly like that!!

Originally Posted by Melvosh

Wait, what? All the British TV we Americans get tells me everyone across the pond talks exactly like that!!

Mmm,
I don't think the OP from Australia will be thanking you for confusing him with a Brit.

Ah, sorry! I was just going by current location

Hi Kyle,

Just as a matter of interest where / how do you find the two numbers?
I saw the original on the 'What's New' page but of course they drift away as new ones arrive.

I think it's just a matter of going to the particular sub-forum. I saw one post in there with 210k views and 3 posts, so 70k views per post

Sorting Excel:General by Views (high to low), I think I've found the winner:

In Excel how can I filter multiple columns SIMULTANEOUSLY?

321,205 views : 6 replies
So a ratio of 53,534 : 1 on that one.

Like Ali said, it's something that people would be Googling a lot, so it would get a lot of lurkers finding it from search engines; and it's an old thread, so it's had better than a decade to rack up hits. (And it's locked, so specific to this discussion of the views:posts ratio, it can only do better).

Kinda surprised, looking at sort-by-views, that there aren't any timesheet questions. Of the questions I've done and monitored, I feel like timesheet questions also accumulate hits pretty quick, as people search around looking for the super-special timesheet that will do exactly what they want. I've gotten to kind of resent timesheet questions though, because they're usually a lot of work that isn't terribly novel.

Originally Posted by Kyle123

...it'd be easy top put a couple of lines of code together that would call the thread thousands of times - though I don't know why anyone would bother

I think that would separately win as "most vain reason to launch a DOS attack"

Recently a bot (+http://www.semrush.com/bot.html) increased the number of visitors of my website considerably.
After I blocked that bot the visitor number 'rose' to normal.

Honestly, I think the admins have got better things to waste their time on and the tech team won't be remotely interested.

Based on past experience, I would guess the tech team aren't remotely interested in pretty much anything ... well, not related to the forum anyway.

I had noticed this same trend, a while back (maybe a month or more?)

As was already mentioned, we (I) have a hard enough time getting the TT to respond to more important?? concerns, so I have not even bothered to raise this.

On a side note, and to the TT's credit, i DID get some momentum from this on a few things, after some nasty comments and threats to them, as well as cataloging (along with a time-line) a list of outstanding matters. Some may not seem so pressing, but they have all been outstanding for a considerable length of time, for example...

1. Newbie post count dropped from 10 to 5 before links can be included.
2. no urls allowed in titles (noticed a drop in spammers lately?)
3. still pushing to simplify the spammer banning process
4. had some CS refunds made.

2. no urls allowed in titles (noticed a drop in spammers lately?)

No - how late is lately? I'm still seeing URLs in titles (as of today):

https://www.excelforum.com/excel-pro...upplement.html

https://www.excelforum.com/excel-gen...ably-skin.html

FYI, reported the below thread as spam. It has a URL in the title. The spammers always seem to find a way

https://www.excelforum.com/excel-gen...ws-canada.html

Thanks for the update guys. I will report back to the TT on their achievement.

LOL, Ford ...