Because if they change their screen names, they're IRL identity is harder to figure out.

Yeah, keep believeing that, boys...

I get that. I think....


Let's look at yesterday.

Forum Statistics
Registered Members: 2,252Topics: 3,138Total Posts: 39,320 There are currently 0 member(s) and 30 guest(s) online. 1012 user(s) visited this forum in the past 24 hours The most users ever online was 20 member(s) and 106 guest(s) at Mar 22 7:18 PM, 2007

1012 visitors yesterday. Figure he has at least 900 per day. That's 6300 visitors per week. Most of the threads on the main page are at least a week old, some more than that. Many of them have fewer than 3-400 views. So for all teh visitors, what are they looking at? The view counts should be much, muchhigher than what they are, especially if people are "monitoring" at the state and federal level.

I'm just saying that Joe is clearly lying about his numbers, all of them, and refuses to acknowledge it, even with the common sense looking him dead in his bloodshot eyes.

Joe is a complete and total fraud, and it's a shame that there are still one or two people who still haven't caught on to that ironclad undisputable fact yet.

The webpages inform me that those websites are not available, for some reason.

Must have been the storm that knocked them off line, right, Joe? I refuse to believe that you haven't actually followed through with that, either.

My God, man. What is it that you actually do??


-- Edited by Paul at 15:04, 2008-02-13

You get a hit when someone visits your website.

You get a page view when someone clicks on anything.

So, according to the obvious and public numbers (except for "hits" - they're Joe's magic number) 22,000 people a day "hit" or log on to dd.com. Then, only 1000 page views occur after that.

That says one of a few things:

-Joe's lying about hits.

-22,000 hits and only a 1000 page views means that there is nothing compelling or interesting for anyone to click on. In other words, 22,000 visits occurred, but those visits resulting in getting enough interest to produce about 1000 page views.

What does that mean? Assuming Joe's crazy 22,000 hits per day number is accurate, the vast majority of those people go no further than the home page. Hits could be produced by search results, links from other boards etc. The real number is page views. Unless those hits translate into page views they mean nothing.

Going by Joe's numbers his Website is a complete disaster. About 4% of the traffic he drives (allegedly) result in anyone clicking on a story. Worse yet, the message board numbers are separate from the dd.com numbers. Activeboard doesn't host Joe's site (I think Earthlink does). The message board numbers are technically credited to another site - not dd.com.

Sounds a bit confusing, but thats the straight dope.

Think of hits as walking through a casino. Think of page views as dropping a quarter in the slot. Casino owners don't care about the walkers until they become droppers. Same goes for websites.

-- Edited by Art Gordon at 19:13, 2008-02-13

...and our numbers aren't inflated by the same people posting over and over again under different nicknames.

Speaking of that, anyone else curious as to how many different DD posters will suddenly disappear once Edith gets sent down the river? Hmmmmm...now that will be interesting. Maybe Pilchesky will keep up the posts for appearances sake...although with his own multiple personalities requiring upkeep, that could prove to be challenging. Oh well, I guess we will not be seeing anything in PA State Police Deceit anytime soon.


-- Edited by Agamemnon at 07:28, 2008-02-14

Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.