Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] our bridge collapse

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Bryan Venable wrote:

> It peaked at #4, I think.

That's the highest I saw it.  I've had 16,522 hits in the 15 hours since 
it was posted, and that was from 15,265 different IPs (so not too many 
reloads).

Clearly, reddit is an excellent way to get people to see your web page. 
Unfortunately, people can write outrageous or inaccurate comments and 
these sometimes get pushed to the top because when people write to correct 
them, the comment gives them some points.  More clearly wrong means more 
corrections and more points and you get your baloney pushed to the top of 
the list.  I hope they'll fix that.

People can post anonymously, and they do so.  They seem averse to telling 
us *anything* about their background and expertise, or lack thereof, but 
they are very willing claim great certainty about their ideas.  It's a way 
for losers to show off.  If I get on reddit.com again, I will ignore the 
stupid comments.  Unfortunately, that might not solve the problem and the 
very stupidest comment of all might be found right at the top of the list.

I do have another very interesting thing to put out there in a couple of 
weeks.  It is also about a bridge in Minneapolis and I wrote about it on 
this list 4 years ago.  I still think I was right about that -- about how 
an unsafe bridge could have caused a kid to fall into the river and drown 
-- and now I have some support and a way of getting my ideas into the 
local news, so I'm going to do that.

Mike

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