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Hi Admin,

 

Your new format shows how many responses have been posted on a given discussion; but, it leaves off a very vital piece of information -- how many have READ the posts.   When we take the time to generate post to start a new discussion, or to respond to an existing post -- it is useful to know how many people are reading the posts.

 

We know that the TD Forums have over 12,300 registered members.  But, I would guess that many or more come on the forums just to read and never to post.  It is useful information to know how many people read what we write, not just how many have responded.

 

Why is this important to me?  I post primarily on the Religion Forum and, there, try to share the Word of God to the best of my abilities.  Since a large portion of the responses posted are from those who are atheist and other non-believers -- it has always been useful to know how many "silent" readers also read our posts.

 

While I use the comments and questions from atheists and other non-believers as launching pads for sharing the Word of God -- if we never see any results except those of the atheist/non-believer telling us what nuts we are to believe in God -- this can become a very heavy burden. 

 

So, please, if it is not too great a task -- will you start showing the number of reads along with the number of posts?

 

Thank you and God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

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quote:
  Originally Posted by BO:

Trying to get a garbage count there poster?  ( garbage meaning who read ur crap) . 

Hi BO,

 

Thank you, my Friend, for emphasizing just how badly many people need to hear the Word of God.  Your post is a wonderful testimony to that need.

 

Admin, any help you can give in making this happen will be greatly appreciated.

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

bill.. it didn't show how many people read it, it showed how many time it was looked at.

everytime someone clicked on it to see if there was a new reply, the count jumped by one. NSNS could sit there all day and hope in and out of that thread and run the ' viewed' count up to the hundreds, when in truth only 3 people acctualyl read your post.

 

it was a meaningless statistic, useful only to someone who needs a false sense of importance to bolster their already over inflated ego.

 

" oh look! my post has been viewed 300 times already, and i just posted it yesterday!"

when all the while is was just the other christians who kept going back, thinking "did he really say that? no i must have read it wrong, i better check again, cause he couldn't have said that, that ain't right....that man is just making this stuff up as he goes...."

 

True enough Nagel. Also, it was usually the same four or five people who ran up the count. Of those over 12,000 members, about 100 have actually posted at all. Many make an account and never bother to come back. I doubt there are very many who read the forums unless they also post.

If the TVT wanted to, they could show how many actually visited the forum site on any given day, now that would be a good number to know.

But then, that would also show how much traffic has dropped off.

 

BTW, the way the member list (community) is now, you cannot see who has posted, put it in alphabetical order, or show the rankings of the members.

Originally Posted by Bill Gray:

Hi Admin,

Why is this important to me?  I post primarily on the Religion Forum and, there, try to share the Word of God to the best of my abilities.  Since a large portion of the responses posted are from those who are atheist and other non-believers -- it has always been useful to know how many "silent" readers also read our posts.

While I use the comments and questions from atheists and other non-believers as launching pads for sharing the Word of God -- if we never see any results except those of the atheist/non-believer telling us what nuts we are to believe in God -- this can become a very heavy burden. 

So, please, if it is not too great a task -- will you start showing the number of reads along with the number of posts?

Bill

 


 

Bill, are you truly serious??  I’m sure admin will do this asap since you asked.

Best of your ability??? My God! I would hate to see your worse!

I’m curious how it’s useful to know how many people read our your post? How do you know those “silent” readers aren’t Atheist or non-believers that see you exactly as most of us already here do? How do you know those non-believers don’t run even further away from religion after reading your rants post? I don’t think you are a nut for believing in God but your delivery/opinion of the Word is sorely lacking, & so very sad.

Methinks what BeeG fails to realize is that out of the 12.300 registered users-Most of them are/were either spambots or taggers or just people who signed up to comment on a certain topic once upon a time and never returned.

I think it would be safe to say that the regular users are the only ones here, mostly.

 

This guy thinks he's got a flippin' congregation!

 

LOL.

Originally Posted by Road Puppy:

Methinks what BeeG fails to realize is that out of the 12.300 registered users-Most of them are/were either spambots or taggers or just people who signed up to comment on a certain topic once upon a time and never returned.

I think it would be safe to say that the regular users are the only ones here, mostly.

 

This guy thinks he's got a flippin' congregation!

 

LOL.


it'd be sad, if it wasn't so funny. poor lil bill. he thinks people like him.

Bill, "they" are so correct....if I check your post, it is to see if someone has actually been able to put you in your place...not to read your post....I never read your rude remarks in their entirety.  ....and yes, I'm a Christian but I don't believe God likes your attitude and sultry responses.  You do NOT sound like a Man of God to me!  You sound like an egotistical man with many problems in his life and try to ruin others.  Your post is NOT uplifting!!!

 

Many times I come to the forum and read the posts but rarely post because the rants of these atheists/nonbelievers are so idiotic they do not deserve a reply.  They appear so narrow minded in their thinking that they can not ever consider themselves being wrong and that someone else could possibly be correct.  So many of their "discussions" are nothing more than a platform to spew rants of ridecule and hateful remarks to those with differing views.  The majority are the pot calling the kettle black.  Matthew 7:5"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

Originally Posted by Shoals Resident:

Many times I come to the forum and read the posts but rarely post because the rants of these atheists/nonbelievers are so idiotic they do not deserve a reply.  They appear so narrow minded in their thinking that they can not ever consider themselves being wrong and that someone else could possibly be correct.  So many of their "discussions" are nothing more than a platform to spew rants of ridecule and hateful remarks to those with differing views.  The majority are the pot calling the kettle black.  Matthew 7:5"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

 

LMAO! Spoken like someone who only opens their mouth long enough to change feet!

 Ms. Pot-Meet Mr. Kettle.

 


 

Originally Posted by Shoals Resident:

Many times I come to the forum and read the posts but rarely post because the rants of these atheists/nonbelievers are so idiotic they do not deserve a reply.  They appear so narrow minded in their thinking that they can not ever consider themselves being wrong and that someone else could possibly be correct.  So many of their "discussions" are nothing more than a platform to spew rants of ridecule and hateful remarks to those with differing views.  The majority are the pot calling the kettle black.  Matthew 7:5"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

Most of the atheist that come here do so to discuss their opinion. The narrow minded, rant spewing, hateful, ridiculing seems to be from Christians like you. Read your post hypocrite. Pot, meet kettle. As for idiotic, have you read some of the "other" stuff?

quote:
  Originally Posted by Killen Lady:

Bill, "they" are so correct....if I check your post, it is to see if someone has actually been able to put you in your place...not to read your post....I never read your rude remarks in their entirety.  ....and yes, I'm a Christian but I don't believe God likes your attitude and sultry responses.  You do NOT sound like a Man of God to me!  You sound like an egotistical man with many problems in his life and try to ruin others.  Your post is NOT uplifting!!! 

Hi Lady,

 

Yes, my Friend, you truly (?) sound like a Christian.  If all Christians supported one another as you do -- the atheists/secularists would have been ruling the world thousands of years ago.

 

By the way, please say a prayer for me the next time you are in church.  You do attend church and pray, don't you?

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

quote:   Originally Posted by Road Puppy:
quote:  Originally Posted by Shoals Resident:

Many times I come to the forum and read the posts but rarely post because the rants of these atheists/nonbelievers are so idiotic they do not deserve a reply.  They appear so narrow minded in their thinking that they can not ever consider themselves being wrong and that someone else could possibly be correct.  So many of their "discussions" are nothing more than a platform to spew rants of ridecule and hateful remarks to those with differing views.  The majority are the pot calling the kettle black. 

 

Matthew 7:5, "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye." 

LMAO!  Spoken like someone who only opens their mouth long enough to change  feet!   Ms. Pot - Meet Mr. Kettle.


Hi Shoals,

 

And, here in his response -- Puppy gives absolute validation of what you have written!   Isn't it funny, and encouraging, how our atheist Friends unintentionally cooperate so well with us?

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

Originally Posted by Bill Gray:
 

 


Hi Shoals,

 

And, here in his response -- Puppy gives absolute validation of what you have written!   Isn't it funny, and encouraging, how our atheist Friends unintentionally cooperate so well with us?

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

 

 

Heh. Yeah, if a valid carbon-copy of what you're complaining about is what ya wanted to be.  

LOL! I can't believe bill is trying to get the TD to accommodate him. Bill, hundreds do not read you much less thousands. A handful of people read you and the majority doesn't agree with anything you post.  If you want to preach so badly rent an empty service station and start your little "Church of what bill says" like the other wannabe preachers do. 

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

LOL! I can't believe bill is trying to get the TD to accommodate him. Bill, hundreds do not read you much less thousands. A handful of people read you and the majority doesn't agree with anything you post.  If you want to preach so badly rent an empty service station and start your little "Church of what bill says" like the other wannabe preachers do. 

 

 

 

LOL!! But jennifer reads every post and even stalks bill over to the feedback forum.

Well hey a-hole. Now who is stalking who? You sure seem to hang on my every word. FYI I saw that RP had posted on the feedback forum. You know, on the side when it shows who posted where.  Why are you posting here? I know the answer, you had to run stick your nose into my business. You truly need to get a hobby to keep you occupied while your old lady is out making your living. Now **** off.

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Well hey a-hole. Now who is stalking who? You sure seem to hang on my every word. FYI I saw that RP had posted on the feedback forum. You know, on the side when it shows who posted where.  Why are you posting here? I know the answer, you had to run stick your nose into my business. You truly need to get a hobby to keep you occupied while your old lady is out making your living. Now **** off.

Angry? Bitter? ..............................................................Sorry Jenn. I had to. I just had to.

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Well hey a-hole. Now who is stalking who? You sure seem to hang on my every word. FYI I saw that RP had posted on the feedback forum. You know, on the side when it shows who posted where.  Why are you posting here? I know the answer, you had to run stick your nose into my business. You truly need to get a hobby to keep you occupied while your old lady is out making your living. Now **** off.

 

 

That was ugly. You are being ugly. I have never been accused of being a a-hole.

Are you stalking rp too?

I did not stick anything in you business. This is an open forum. You and bill do not own it. You cannot say who posts. I can post where I want to.

I have many hobbies. I watch tv so I can tell my "old lady" what went on when she was a work.

She is happy to make my living. I am her king. Nobody else would have married her. She is not a looker on the outside but I am ok with that.  **** off you tell me? You have a potty mouth. 

Have a blessed day.

Thats the spirit Shoals. I am not angry at Jimi. I toss off these witticisms for his benefit. It is my hope that, in some small way, I am contributing to his well being. I believe there is a salvageable person in that pompous, arrogant, misinformed, narcissistic, little twit. Perhaps my humorous (at times, just downright brilliant) jabs will inspire him to re-examine his anti-social behavior, to come out of that basement, to tear himself away from Mama's apron strings, and realize his full potential as a below average person.

 

So, how about it? You wanna help me beat up Jimi?

I'm not one bit surprised she's not a looker and that she supports you. No good looking self-respecting woman would want you. I'm sure you're a king, king of the s*** house rats that is. It's you that thinks you own the forums, you're the one running from thread to thread to "comment" on my posts. Oh my, was that angry and bitter??

Originally Posted by bluetick:

Thats the spirit Shoals. I am not angry at Jimi. I toss off these witticisms for his benefit. It is my hope that, in some small way, I am contributing to his well being. I believe there is a salvageable person in that pompous, arrogant, misinformed, narcissistic, little twit. Perhaps my humorous (at times, just downright brilliant) jabs will inspire him to re-examine his anti-social behavior, to come out of that basement, to tear himself away from Mama's apron strings, and realize his full potential as a below average person.

 

So, how about it? You wanna help me beat up Jimi?

 

 

 

I admire your attempted "education" of this guy. You do know, if it weren't for his valiant war service, you would be speaking Vietnamese now.

Originally Posted by Bill Gray:

Hi Lady,

Yes, my Friend, you truly (?) sound like a Christian.  If all Christians supported one another as you do -- the atheists/secularists would have been ruling the world thousands of years ago.

 You do attend church and pray, don't you?

Bill

Uh.....Bill?!? That comment fits you like a glove. Were you talking to yourself & put it here by accident?

Originally Posted by Blind Melon Chit'lin:
Originally Posted by bluetick:

Thats the spirit Shoals. I am not angry at Jimi. I toss off these witticisms for his benefit. It is my hope that, in some small way, I am contributing to his well being. I believe there is a salvageable person in that pompous, arrogant, misinformed, narcissistic, little twit. Perhaps my humorous (at times, just downright brilliant) jabs will inspire him to re-examine his anti-social behavior, to come out of that basement, to tear himself away from Mama's apron strings, and realize his full potential as a below average person.

 

So, how about it? You wanna help me beat up Jimi?

 

 

 

I admire your attempted "education" of this guy. You do know, if it weren't for his valiant war service, you would be speaking Vietnamese now.

LOL!

 


Nối vào Phonics làm việc cho tôi!

 

Originally Posted by semiannualchick:
Originally Posted by Blind Melon Chit'lin:

You do know, if it weren't for his valiant war service, you would be speaking Vietnamese now.

Speaking Vietnamese? I think that's one of the dumbest comments made on this forum & there's been a bunch! 

 

 

You obviously missed jimi's Viet Nam "war chronicles" posting. And you FOR SURE don't recognize SARCASM.

And yes, I would say you've made quite a few "blurbs" yourself .

Originally Posted by Road Puppy:
Originally Posted by Blind Melon Chit'lin:
Originally Posted by bluetick:

Thats the spirit Shoals. I am not angry at Jimi. I toss off these witticisms for his benefit. It is my hope that, in some small way, I am contributing to his well being. I believe there is a salvageable person in that pompous, arrogant, misinformed, narcissistic, little twit. Perhaps my humorous (at times, just downright brilliant) jabs will inspire him to re-examine his anti-social behavior, to come out of that basement, to tear himself away from Mama's apron strings, and realize his full potential as a below average person.

 

So, how about it? You wanna help me beat up Jimi?

 

 

 

I admire your attempted "education" of this guy. You do know, if it weren't for his valiant war service, you would be speaking Vietnamese now.

LOL!

 


Nối vào Phonics làm việc cho tôi!

 

một con chó khác ... bạn muốn giúp tôi đánh bại lên Jimi?

Originally Posted by bluetick:
Originally Posted by Road Puppy:
Originally Posted by Blind Melon Chit'lin:
Originally Posted by bluetick:

 

 

So, how about it? You wanna help me beat up Jimi?

 

 

 

I admire your attempted "education" of this guy. You do know, if it weren't for his valiant war service, you would be speaking Vietnamese now.

LOL!

 


Nối vào Phonics làm việc cho tôi!

 

một con chó khác ... bạn muốn giúp tôi đánh bại lên Jimi?

 

Có! Tại sao không.

Originally Posted by The Nagel:

bill.. it didn't show how many people read it, it showed how many time it was looked at.

everytime someone clicked on it to see if there was a new reply, the count jumped by one. NSNS could sit there all day and hope in and out of that thread and run the ' viewed' count up to the hundreds, when in truth only 3 people acctualyl read your post.

 

it was a meaningless statistic, useful only to someone who needs a false sense of importance to bolster their already over inflated ego.

 

" oh look! my post has been viewed 300 times already, and i just posted it yesterday!"

when all the while is was just the other christians who kept going back, thinking "did he really say that? no i must have read it wrong, i better check again, cause he couldn't have said that, that ain't right....that man is just making this stuff up as he goes...."

 

Count also goes up every time I hit 'refresh' when I leave the topic open up in my browser (which can be quite often)......

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