Re: JSH: Measuring post impact

jshsucks@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
jshsucks@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
Years ago I was naive about how information travels around the world so
I thought that if you put it out there people would find it. As I
posted for years on newsgroups I imagined thousands of people worldwide
were getting information I was certain they needed to know, and then I
found ways to measure, and found, nope, they were not.

They weren't paying attention. I WAS mostly just known to a small
community on the sci.math newsgroup. Ugh. How depressing.

Every means of measuring showed a limited number of readers and not the
thousands that I'd envisioned.

So I shifted. That's why I mostly lost interest in worrying about
particular posters--unless they showed up measurably as having an
impact.

Yup, I do the equivalent of checking the polls to see what works. When
something doesn't work, I shift. That shifting is continual.

I won't go into a lot of detail, of course, about how I can tell how
well any of you do in negative replies against my research, but I will
talk about what I've talked about before--Google search results, as
well as other search engines, but mostly I use Google.

I can tell which posters have any impact at all from them, and the
answer is, most of you have negligible impact in terms of which posts
get picked up based on search engine results, and the people who do
seem to have some, are usually people I don't remember, or never
noticed their original postings.

The world is a fascinating place. It's not how you think.

Today my posts do probably get read by thousands of people
worldwide--primarily through Google.

They do searches on prime numbers or other math topics and postings of
mine come up in the search results and that is probably how the bulk of
my postings get read by newbies, and then Google links to archives
where people can go through more of them, and that's how a lot of
others probably get picked up.

So I know who among you gets listened to, and who among you comes up
with angles that resonate with others in the world, and who of you
don't.

Do the searches yourselves. Short answer is, most of you have
negligble impact.

And, oh yeah, when I'm really bored, I'll watch search results shift
from day-to-day to give you people some idea about how many people are
steadily tuning in, as you get an audience that may be bigger than you
think.

I wonder how many people worldwide does it take to shift search results
on a day to day basis? How many people clicking through and triggering
algorithms to change what they pull up are necessary for that kind of
impact?

So yeah, I measure much of what I do through search engines.

Do some searches on primes and probability now, and learn.


James Harris

I just did a google search on prime numbers. Not one mention of you in
the first 3 pages.

I am also guessing by this post that you still haven't learned how
modern search engine work. That really isn't surprising.

I didn't say do a search on prime numbers.

I said do a search on primes and probability.

Sigh. You do that on purpose, don't you?

Deliberately get this just wrong enough so that you can hold on to your
delusions.

Wake up, you're being noticed by a lot more people around the world
than you ever imagined, and they're not showing an interest in what you
have to say--according to Google.


James Harris

Do a search on jshsucks. My posts come up on the first page. Does that
mean that there are thousands of people doing searches for jshsucks?
No, of course not.

You really should do some reading on how google works Harris, but we
all know how averse you are to actual research, so you will stay
blissfully ignorant as always.

You're ignored. Google shows that people don't pay attention to you,
which doesn't surprise me, so why do I?

We'll come back to that question.

Any objective person would not equate Google searches on primes and
probability with a highly specific thing as you mindlessly trying to
insult me, when I'm trying to teach you something, and maybe save you
from further embarrassment.

Be objective, use Google. You think you're doing something here, when
the world has voted on what you're doing.

While I AM doing something here, which is why my posting moves Google
search results in any number of areas from Java to primes to factoring.

The world IS listening to me, and they are not listening to you.

Do you really want this to continue? Want the rest of your life
hearing that echo inside of your head?

So why am I listening to you?

You can post so you think you have power. But I like freedom of
speech, and I don't like people who mess up arenas where real work can
be done. So if I make an example of you, I can send a message to every
person who is not smart enough that posting anonymously with some
stupid pseudonym does not really protect you.

I can reach out and touch you anyway.

If you push me, then I will start showing you just how much I can do
just with words, and as your life changes you will deny it, until you
no longer can crawl to that keyboard and type anything, and you will
still be somewhere out there--in denial.

But at least no one will hear you in cyberspace. Understand?


James Harris

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