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Post by teetown on May 18, 2014 17:13:23 GMT -5
Pose a koan and then give hints. It's irresistible. All the middle-aged dudes in their underwear stop watching porn, take their hands off their balls and sit up straight for a few minutes. All the teen-age girls stop posting their ongoing life monologue on facebook, and the traffic to the sites debating whether Obama is a foreign Muslim suddenly dries up. It's magic. A phone call from Oprah is imminent. Hey 'pilgrim, just remember that we knew you back when, 'k? 4600 views and growing exponentially... 'pilgrim will surely be giddy when he returns from the market and dinner with the in-laws.  The news vans will probably be parked outside his home by then. The people want to know the answer to the riddle! |
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Post by runstill on May 18, 2014 17:31:16 GMT -5
It's kinda embarrassing the joyful glee watching this get to 6000  |
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Post by topology on May 18, 2014 17:49:28 GMT -5
It's kinda embarrassing the joyful glee watching this get to 6000 Are you refreshing your browser to watch the counter rise? I wonder if refreshing in the thread will cause the counter to rise faster.  |
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Post by topology on May 18, 2014 17:51:04 GMT -5
I wonder at what point proboards will decide that whoever is doing this is eating up their bandwidth and server compute time and will ban the IP... |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 18, 2014 17:53:54 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 18, 2014 17:58:44 GMT -5
I wonder at what point proboards will decide that whoever is doing this is eating up their bandwidth and server compute time and will ban the IP... Talk about beating a dead horse.........whoever, can stop, this horse is deader than my horse................ |
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Post by teetown on May 18, 2014 17:59:55 GMT -5
I wonder at what point proboards will decide that whoever is doing this is eating up their bandwidth and server compute time and will ban the IP... I think it just counts HTTP requests, which means if the page itself isn't being rendered, it wouldn't use up that much bandwidth. |
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Post by topology on May 18, 2014 18:05:19 GMT -5
I wonder at what point proboards will decide that whoever is doing this is eating up their bandwidth and server compute time and will ban the IP... I think it just counts HTTP requests, which means if the page itself isn't being rendered, it wouldn't use up that much bandwidth. What I'm saying is, these pages are dynamic, not static. I suppose if the page is cached on the server and hasn't been updated by someone posting (or liking), its a straight data dump from a file, no serious compute time to dynamically render the page content. But are you saying that the response to the HTTP request doesn't include the HTML source for the entire page? There's a bit of client side javascript or browser directive to query for more content? |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 18, 2014 18:05:41 GMT -5
I won't say, because at this point it would be overkill, but that which is missing isn't missed when it is missing. *chuckle* I hate to drag you back into this, but it seems you were right. sdp |
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Post by enigma on May 18, 2014 18:05:50 GMT -5
I thought you meant ST's forum members or guests. I almost can't say anything else anyway without saying the answer. I'm headed out to lunch, and grocery-buying and parent-visiting. I'll probably be out all afternoon. later....... sdp I am using the analogy to make it clear as to what kind of interest is at play when someone habitually clicks on the new post icon and scans the content because it is new and not because of the nature of the content. If this is the kind of interest that keeps you interested in continuing the thread... I can accept that something in you is getting fed off of seeing the view counter increase. Well, and it's not the only thing being discussed in this thread. |
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Post by teetown on May 18, 2014 19:10:48 GMT -5
I wonder at what point proboards will decide that whoever is doing this is eating up their bandwidth and server compute time and will ban the IP... Talk about beating a dead horse.........whoever, can stop, this horse is deader than my horse................ Hey man all teasing aside, you've been dragging this out for too long. Why don't ya just share what you think you got with the board here and call it a day? |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 18, 2014 19:17:29 GMT -5
Talk about beating a dead horse.........whoever, can stop, this horse is deader than my horse................ Hey man all teasing aside, you've been dragging this out for too long. Why don't ya just share what you think you got with the board here and call it a day? Believe it or not, I know there is at least one person still working on it, so, I'll have to say no. But, I'm done, I won't drag it out. (And he stopped reading posts when the hints started, I can't give the answer). And, BTW, whoever stopped the artificial count of views, thanks. sdp |
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Post by laughter on May 18, 2014 20:30:29 GMT -5
that's funny. how is it done? I dunno but the hits are pouring in with an uncanny regularity. About 1 a second. Logically we can only draw one conclusion: sdp has found an audience of sentient analog robots who have clock-work like CPUs. koanbots! |
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Post by laughter on May 18, 2014 20:53:52 GMT -5
I think it just counts HTTP requests, which means if the page itself isn't being rendered, it wouldn't use up that much bandwidth. What I'm saying is, these pages are dynamic, not static. I suppose if the page is cached on the server and hasn't been updated by someone posting (or liking), its a straight data dump from a file, no serious compute time to dynamically render the page content. But are you saying that the response to the HTTP request doesn't include the HTML source for the entire page? There's a bit of client side javascript or browser directive to query for more content? quick check -- typical page rendering involves about 92 requests. 20 of those are javascript files, another 34 are images (.png, .ico, .gif or .jpg). The rest -- besides the page load itself, the style sheet and a couple of xml data files seem to be session-specific dynamic content: in case you haven't noticed, proboards is involved in an ad network that is quite aggressive. |
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Post by laughter on May 18, 2014 20:55:41 GMT -5
I am using the analogy to make it clear as to what kind of interest is at play when someone habitually clicks on the new post icon and scans the content because it is new and not because of the nature of the content. If this is the kind of interest that keeps you interested in continuing the thread... I can accept that something in you is getting fed off of seeing the view counter increase. Well, and it's not the only thing being discussed in this thread. Noone reads the threads that are just the ribbets of an evil frog! |
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