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Beau78901 year, 4 months ago

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I know. I've been wondering what a "read" is, exactly, and if that kind of manipulation has been going on. Some articles seem to get tens of thousands of read" in a fairly short time, but very few props.

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  populist1 year, 4 months ago
  
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  A read is how many times the page here on propeller has been loaded. It sems to me that people are able to re-load it over and over....and over, and drive that number up. I'm not sure how much that affects the points on an article, but it's clear to me that it does drive it up considerably.
  
  One of my submissions yesterday had 600 reads in just a couple hours (with like only 4 props), and was on the home page shortly after. Then, unsurprisingly, it got less than 1000 additional reads in the next 15 hours.
  
  I've sent feedback to propeller regarding this kind of activity on my submissions and many others. I'm confident from their reply that it'll get fixed, but sooner is always better.
  
  to me, the site will be much better if it's the community as a whole that determines what's popular and what's not - and not the the initiative of a few spammers.
  
  Ok, enough off-topic ranting for me!
  
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    Beau78901 year, 4 months ago
    
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    So it has nothing to do with clicking through to the actual article. That's what I thought it might mean...seems a better measure of who's interested in the topic.
    
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      populist1 year, 4 months ago
      
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      I would have to agree, Beau. But, it's all about how many times the page is viewed here on propeller. Either way, though, they do need to do something about people clicking over and over..
      
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        flyonthewallzz1 year, 4 months ago
        
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        I could be wrong, but I think clicking on the little red triangles count.
        The numbers are out of hand.
        
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        ind061 year, 4 months ago
        
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        To increase the reads you hit refresh. Try it, increase the reads on any post you choose by five or ten or twenty, it'll take you about two or three minutes.
        
        Votes are the most heavily counted part of the overall "score" a post receives, but a simply massive number of reads will push the numbers up as well, and, if you're dishonest, with time on your hands.
        
        As is apparently the case for some,
        
        You can artificially promote a post to the home page.
        The only conceivable way I can see a post getting four votes and a thousand reads is if the post had some hum-dinger grab 'em by the shorties title but the article was a total piece of garbage, indicating the poster had disappointed 996 readers.
        
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        Beau78901 year, 4 months ago
        
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        I guess leaving that option pen for gamers boosts some metrics...but i'd think there'd be other more accurate ones tracking unique hits.
        
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        ind061 year, 4 months ago
        
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        I hope by laying out how it's done I can speed the closing of the loophole. Seems like a glitch to me.
        
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