how many lights do you use for christmas?

tony.willson · 12-09-2007, 04:00 PM

Me, i use at least 67,000 and i have a total of maybe 110,000 lights
no joke im serious

wonderwrench · 12-09-2007, 07:03 PM

Ah zero. No kids here but me.

*SRTDodge05* · 12-09-2007, 07:27 PM

None here.

Griff · 12-09-2007, 11:16 PM

I use about 8 strings of outside lights, so about 225 bulbs.

JimTram · 12-10-2007, 03:10 AM

Zero. Not counting my fiber-optic Christmas Tree.

SupDawg · 12-10-2007, 03:21 AM

A better question for us here is how many LED status lights do you have in your house?

Rick_EE · 12-10-2007, 08:38 AM

How much did you expect this site to help your traffic stats?

ctal · 12-10-2007, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rick_EE

How much did you expect this site to help your traffic stats?

Apparently not enough to satisfy him, because in the last few days he's posted the exact same question to about 10 different forums. At least as many, also, for the other two posts he has made here.

Good catch, Rick! Hopefully the mods will take notice.

-- Al

traveler · 12-10-2007, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rick_EE

How much did you expect this site to help your traffic stats?

What was or is he expecting to happen?

Rick_EE · 12-10-2007, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by traveler

What was or is he expecting to happen?

People have been posting just to increase traffic stats to sites. They do this by putting a hot link image or a link in their signature, hoping people click on it, thereby increasing traffic and likely ad revenue.

The management here, is trying to combat this has disabled links and images in posts until certain numbers of posts have been reached. At the very least they deny satisfaction.

You can usually spot them when a new member has only a few posts and all in a small period of time. Especially if the subject of one or more of them is off topic. You can then verify by googling their name. When you get links to profiles on a dozen or more boards and at each one they have 3 posts, you have a winner.

It is especially obvious when a new member makes a totally irrelevant post in a long thread. The logic being that a long post is clicked on a lot.

ctal · 12-10-2007, 10:18 PM

I'll add to Rick's comments that this same poster has now posted this same question on approximately 50 different forums, based on a Google search using his question in quotes plus his screen name in quotes. In some of those posts (presumably where the setup of the forum makes it possible) there are spam links in the signature. Here is an example:

(I do not want to have the full link appear here for the robots to follow, so prefix the following with http: followed by 2 slashes)
symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14933

I suspect that one of the things posters like this may be trying to do (and there have been a lot of them lately), in addition to what Rick has mentioned, is to elevate the sites they are linking to in search engine rankings, which take into account the number of other sites linking to a given site in determining its ranking in search results.

Regards,
-- Al

traveler · 12-10-2007, 10:49 PM

Good explanation. Thanks Buds.

traveler · 12-11-2007, 09:58 AM

What's your thoughts on post number 239 in this thread?

Important info for prospective P4T-E buyers...

ctal · 12-11-2007, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by traveler

What's your thoughts on post number 239 in this thread?

Important info for prospective P4T-E buyers...

If he were legitimate, he would have started a new thread with this question, instead of adding it to a long thread that had its most recent previous post in 2005. Also, he has already posted the same question to a couple of other forums that deal with completely different subject matter. Not sure what his exact intent is -- perhaps to draw spam to the email address he listed, for some reason.

-- Al

**k0NG0** · 12-11-2007, 02:22 PM

Nice catch, buds. As no links are visible and it's unlikely he's returning, I think I'll leave the posts to be. This thread could possibly turn into something nice.

12-09-2007, 04:00 PM	#1
tony.willson Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3	how many lights do you use for christmas? Me, i use at least 67,000 and i have a total of maybe 110,000 lights no joke im serious __________________ Tony Willson
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12-09-2007, 07:03 PM	#2
wonderwrench ABXpert Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Mpls MN Posts: 1,614	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? Ah zero. No kids here but me. __________________ C2Q Q6600 @ 3 GhzMSI P35 Neo2-FR bios 1.104x 2 gig Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 ramEvga 8800GT SSC SATA HD's 1 Seagate 320 gig, 1 Samsung 320 gig LiteOn sohw-1693sPlextor PX 716aTeac FloppyOCZ 700GXSSLI PSU* Rosewill R6AR6-BK case*XP pro sp3 32 bit\Vista Ultimate 64 bit Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
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12-09-2007, 07:27 PM	#3
SRTDodge05 Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 7,831	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? None here.
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12-09-2007, 11:16 PM	#4
Griff OLD FART Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Smithers BC, Canada Posts: 3,670	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? I use about 8 strings of outside lights, so about 225 bulbs. __________________ Jerry Folding for the betterment of man kind.
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12-10-2007, 03:10 AM	#5
JimTram Seabees, USN-Retired Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Camarillo, California Posts: 2,916	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? Zero. Not counting my fiber-optic Christmas Tree.
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12-10-2007, 03:21 AM	#6
SupDawg Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,079	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? A better question for us here is how many LED status lights do you have in your house? __________________ The views expressed in this electronic dialogue are mine alone. "All physics are belong to me. " Kongo
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12-10-2007, 08:38 AM	#7
Rick_EE Slightly Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 1,043	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? How much did you expect this site to help your traffic stats? __________________ "Your a looser"- internet phrase of the day.
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12-10-2007, 10:18 PM	#11
ctal Eschews Obfuscation Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Connecticut, USA Posts: 1,375	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? I'll add to Rick's comments that this same poster has now posted this same question on approximately 50 different forums, based on a Google search using his question in quotes plus his screen name in quotes. In some of those posts (presumably where the setup of the forum makes it possible) there are spam links in the signature. Here is an example: (I do not want to have the full link appear here for the robots to follow, so prefix the following with http: followed by 2 slashes) symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14933 I suspect that one of the things posters like this may be trying to do (and there have been a lot of them lately), in addition to what Rick has mentioned, is to elevate the sites they are linking to in search engine rankings, which take into account the number of other sites linking to a given site in determining its ranking in search results. Regards, -- Al
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12-10-2007, 10:49 PM	#12
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,226	Good explanation. Thanks Buds.
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12-11-2007, 09:58 AM	#13
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,226	What's your thoughts on post number 239 in this thread? Important info for prospective P4T-E buyers...
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12-11-2007, 02:22 PM	#15
k0NG0 Remembering TQ Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden Posts: 13,638	Re: how many lights do you use for christmas? Nice catch, buds. As no links are visible and it's unlikely he's returning, I think I'll leave the posts to be. This thread could possibly turn into something nice. __________________ Use Firefox - "the one that blocks all the schmutz" Feeling multicore elation? Remember this correlation: Amdahl's Law.
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