Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Holy shit, have I really had more than 100 hits on this blog in the past 10 days? Wow. I know quite a few of my friends read it because they talk to me about it, and even though I haven't done it much lately I used to kill time by reading everyone's profile and following the links and I imagine some people do that. And also, I'll bet a lot of people disable cookies so they can avoid spyware and adware, so if the same person comes back five times but rejects the cookie every time I think the system counts it as five different people. But even so, I never would have guessed there would be that many people checking it out.

I got that traffic counter because I wanted to know how many people were reading this. If it was just a diary set up to automatically share itself with a few friends, or if I should treat it as public. It seems pretty clear that I should think of it as at least semi-public, then.

So, without further ado... I need to apologize for what I said about the SA Presidential candidates in my March 28 entry. Whatever I said and tried to say and whatever it sounded like in the CT meeting, writing what I did was insulting one or two of the candidates just for the sake of making an equivalency. (And while I'm at it, what I said any of them wasn't nice, but at least some of those descriptions were based in some small amount on what I actually think.) Joking or exaggerating - fine. But insulting someone else - in a public forum, apparently - just to make my prose work better? Not fine.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a folder labeled 'Journals' that I check through several times a day, just to see whose updated. So, a lot of those hits might've been me procrastinating...

-Abby

Anonymous said...

100 hits in 10 days = 10 hits a day = 10 people checking once a day?

Journal entry about wanting to count people visiting your site came *after* I'd reflexively denied the cookie, and I'm too lazy to hunt down the site and let it have a cookie after all.

Cyrus said...
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Cyrus said...

Hell, I'm not scared. I've always avoided writing anything really personal and tried to avoid (with varying degrees of success) writing things about other peoples' personal lives - I've done it with more than one person - so all this means is that more people like my writing. Nothing scary about that.

And I don't care about the double checks and people without cookies either. (Unless someone deliberately hits Refresh 10 times in a row for the fun of it, now that I've posted on it...) I know a lot of people refuse cookies - I did, until it made it harder to use pages like weather.com - but there has to be at least a little something to these numbers. Unless every single one of you checks it multiple times a day and denies cookies. If only 20 different people have read this since I started counting instead of 100, that's still more than I expected.