A fun and psychological experiment

[GenghisK]

Lately I found out that people were more eager to read a post that has been viewed a lot. It's human and normal. I mean in the street, you'd rather go near a crowd and see what's happening. This is the same thing. People would read a thread if it's famous. So actually (and especially in OT forum) if you want a thread read by lot of people, you just reply once, then go back read it, go back, read it again etc... 30 times. Then the counter would show 30+ and people would read it. That seems totally stupid and silly but it's not. And it's a clever technique. ANd of course it's also possible to use that for any of the jokes threads, if you need it to be read.
Of course you could also use another tactic, like "look at the birds on this" technic

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by GenghisK
Lately I found out that people were more eager to read a post that has been viewed a lot.

How do you figure? Couldn't it just be that people were all drawn to the same topics because they seemed interesting? I never notice how many people have viewed a thread before me, but I'm sure I read many 'popular' threads that have high view counts.

 

[Dell19]

Except if a thread has 30 views and no posts then people may decide that its obviously a pointless thread and not bother viewing it themselves.

 

[duke o' york]

Genghis can now spam without having to type anything! What a wonderful discovery.

 

[damunzy]

I seldom look at the view count unless I have staretd the thread. I think I might try it out on my "Roguelike games" in All Other Games forum.... but I am trying to figure out how this is humor or a joke and not an OT topic.... Oh, because you said it was fun!

 

[GenghisK]

Well it's true I hesitated between OT and this forum. But since that was not really OT, IMHO. Ok this is not really a joke neither, but rather a FYI thread. It's hard to choose, sometimes.

 

[damunzy]

Just messing you, although I would have put it in OT. Doesn't matter much though.