10-13-2008, 02:15 AM
ham Wrote:Quote:Those few posts are generally from the same handful of posters, hard to believe since they list 2938 members, almost all of whom have either 0 or 1 post.
Registered users mean little: they can easily be faked by some 'go up one/make up one every minute' script...or (as in most cases it is) be junk members registered to peddle viagra, replica rolex, porn etc...
This type of thing only takes place when the administrator makes a concious effort at deception.
ham Wrote:I knew of another once famous site where the owner and the super-moderator (whom I believe were the SAME person ) accounted alone for 45% of the total posts.
The vast majority of fora are -upon closer inspection- run or populated by the usual bunch of people, maybe using different aliases as I had the chances to forensically document in the past; in one case one mental case ran five parallel aliases with conflicting personalities.
Forget the backdrop of dead usernames, spammers and the few lurkers and gregarious people.
The difference is we are supposed to be discussing distance education, not yakking about Harley-Davidsons or the merits of 80s rockers like Great White.
ham Wrote:The typical person who is a zero in real life, the butt of all jokes among his friends, who turns post-a-holic and cocky sheriff in town online...
The internet IS the realm of the fake, the distorted, the janitor turned principal and the burger flipping guy turned neurosurgeon...where the butt of all jokes in town can serve justice like a Scwarzenegger movie character...
PFFT!
I think that it our collective duty to expose such social deviates.
Fort Bragg Wrote:I've wondered about the stats at different forums. As different programs are used and their parameters are set differently there can be wide variations. Some may list current guests, others guests in the last 15 minutes, yet others in the last week.
I don't get the feeling that homeless Gus fakes his stats as they are the lowest, battling out with this site for last place. I suspect degreeinfo has some issues with the record it used to show in the hundreds. Degreeboard looks reasonably believable.
online.degree.net is clearly faking it.
At least we have the integrity not to create pseudo-members to inflate out stats. I'd rather be part of a small forum that stands for something, in this case exposing the hypocrisy and bullshit found on other DL fora, than be part of some phony cyber-empire run by some some loser looking to compensate for the litany of failures in his life.
