Ok, so, someone is just a pinches fingers little obsessed

.Shane. · Nov 21, 2007

Now, before you click the link below, ask yourself... "What would be the 10 topics that conservatives would most be interested in?" Immigration? Gay Marriage? States rights? The War with Iraq? Reducing Taxes? Evolution/Intelligent Design?

Top 10 links on conservapedia

*note I realize the conservapedia is hardly representative of conservatives at-large, but I found this to be damned funny.

**note 2, first came across this @ Boing-Boing, but they linked to someone else.

philippe · Nov 21, 2007

i think Huccabee started his own "private" investigation :mischief:

Trajan12 · Nov 21, 2007

Laugh of the day. Laugh of the day.

JohnRM · Nov 21, 2007

I saw something like this for another ideologically driven website for which I will not mention where those of the opposing ideology would constantly view/search certain things to skew the results. In fact, a good example of this is the rush of Paul supporters to various internet polls to make him look more popular than reality. In the above case, it wouldn't surprise me if there were more people going to conservapedia to see what conservatives have to say about homosexuality than conservatives doing the same.

skadistic · Nov 21, 2007

Gay Bowel Syndrome‎ ????

Godwynn · Nov 21, 2007

I think I see a trend, not only on conservapedia, but also the American political field.

.Shane. · Nov 21, 2007

John HSOG said:
it wouldn't surprise me if there were more people going to conservapedia to see what conservatives have to say about homosexuality than conservatives doing the same.

If so, that's a pretty funny prank. And, if so, it probably wouldn't be hard to find links on other websites asking people to spam the conservapedia. Regardless, as I noted, I'm not out to bash any ideolgy since the conservapedia doesn't really represent any mainstream opinions, I just thought it was damned funny.

If you check the top 10 on the wikipedia you see no such weirdness. Although, that's interesting as well, just to see the list.

philippe · Nov 21, 2007

Godwynn said:
I think I see a trend, not only on conservapedia, but also the American political field.

Mom, hillary won't come out of the closet! :lol:

amadeus · Nov 21, 2007

Probably someone manipulating site statistics with constant page reloads.

Godwynn · Nov 21, 2007

philippe said:
Mom, hillary won't come out of the closet!

I am talking about the members of the Religious Right who get caught up in "immoral" affairs. I am not talking just about homosexuality either.

Murky · Nov 21, 2007

Obviously the result of conservatives trying to suppress their true feelings in regard to sexuality. :lol:

Swedishguy · Nov 21, 2007

amadeus said:
Probably someone manipulating site statistics with constant page reloads.

Or maybe this is what conservatives like to read about?

JollyRoger · Nov 21, 2007

It's probably just Larry Craig doing bathroom reading with his Palm.

GoodEnoughForMe · Nov 21, 2007

Normally I think that ***** internet raids and the like are stupid, but if somebody raided that site and brought it down they would be doing the world a favor.

CartesianFart · Nov 21, 2007

.Shane. said:
If so, that's a pretty funny prank. And, if so, it probably wouldn't be hard to find links on other websites asking people to spam the conservapedia. Regardless, as I noted, I'm not out to bash any ideolgy since the conservapedia doesn't really represent any mainstream opinions, I just thought it was damned funny.

Not surprising to see a website being something of a place of competition for who can control the information that entitle what it is to be a conservative and how the set of limitations of the ideology of American Conservatism is supposed to be.

philippe · Nov 21, 2007

Godwynn said:
I am talking about the members of the Religious Right who get caught up in "immoral" affairs. I am not talking just about homosexuality either.

I know but personally it's too easy to bash the religious right in the USA these days. :mischief:

Chandrasekhar · Nov 21, 2007

That can't possibly be legit, can it?

amadeus · Nov 21, 2007

Chandrasekhar said:
That can't possibly be legit, can it?

Of course not, but everyone will get a cheap laugh out of it. Ironically, those laughing the most seem to find any sort of jokes about being different (including being a homosexual) to be terribly offensive.

mdwh · Nov 21, 2007

.Shane. said:
If so, that's a pretty funny prank. And, if so, it probably wouldn't be hard to find links on other websites asking people to spam the conservapedia. Regardless, as I noted, I'm not out to bash any ideolgy since the conservapedia doesn't really represent any mainstream opinions, I just thought it was damned funny.

It doesn't have to be any kind of prank or organised campaign - every time I've seen links to conservapedia it's been people poking fun at it, and it wouldn't surprise me if most links are people seeing what they say, rather than conservatives making edits.

Other interesting stats would be how many pages on particular topics there are (could be done by looking at sizes of categories?), or what pages are most actively edited.

What's particularly interesting is how frequently viewed Homosexuality (rank 2) is compared with the main page - it's 83% the frequency of the main page, and has 4% of the total views.

Compare with Wikipedia - rank 2 (Wiki) is only 3% the size of the Main Page, and only has 0.1118% of total views.

Masquerouge · Nov 21, 2007

It is funny. I laughed. I think it's a prank, but a good one

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