Who reads FR? [FReepathon thread 9.6]

Conservapedia-An Illustrated Guide ^ | Jan 18, 2011

[bezelbub]

At www.freerepublic.com, we find the question Who reads FR? to be answered in the following way:

Over 300,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic since inception in 1996 and our forum is read daily by over one hundred thousand freedom loving citizens and patriots from all around the country, and all around the world. We're currently delivering over thirty million pageviews per month to over one million visitors.

This number of 300,000 users is sometimes quoted (i.e., "On one conservative Web site, Freerepublic.com, some of the site's 300,000 registered users have recently used discussion threads to encourage votes for Bristol." - www.people.com), and adorns the front page of freerepublic since Dec 2008 (waybackmachine.com).
But it was wrong then - and it is still wrong now.

So, why aren't there 300,000 freepers?

When registering for posting privileges, any user gets an identification number. The user normally doesn't see this ID, it is only used for internal purposes. Jim Robinson got the number 1, the number 100,000 is taken by The 100,000th FReeper! Unfortunately, these consecutive numbers seem to have been assigned at the beginning of the registration process, not after a successful creation of an account. So each failed try to register increased the used ids, but not the number of accounts. Both numbers diverged pretty fast, but the bug wasn't mended until Feb 2010, when the new mile-stone of 350,000 attempted registrations arrived. By then, the two numbers differed by roughly 100,000. In fact, when freerepublic announced to have 300,000 registered users for the first time ind Dec 2008, the number really was closer to 230,000 - and today, it is less than 270,000.

And what has been done about it?

The way the powers-to-be have chosen to get the numbers right is obvious: they wait for the reality to fit the stated fact. The number of created accounts wasn't updated for two years, and probably won't be changed for another two years, until the number of registered freepers meets the announcement on the front page.

Just for the record: I think that the number of pageviews and visitors are correct. And I doubt that the makers of the site willingly inflated the numbers of created accounts. It seems to be just an honest mistake, and an easy one to make. But when they found the bug, wouldn't it have been the right thing to change the number, as they knew that it was false?

[Elsie]

 

 

 

2010 appears to be when the FLOOD of Official MORMON Statements were posted on FR; and the abilites of MORMON 'apologists' has decreased!!

 

 

 

2010 appears to be when the FLOOD of Official MORMON Statements were posted on FR; and the abilites of MORMON 'apologists' has decreased!!

[Elsie]

Interpreting charts is almost as much fun as TRANSLATING Egyptian funery papyri!

[Elsie]

...and BEYOND!

[Elsie]

wait a minute....I’m a 2004 alumni!!!

Youngster!

[Elsie]

Oh...is JR following restornu like on Twitter?

I could SAY something here; but I won't...

[Elsie]

It is called “Do unto to others as you would have them do unto you!”

Love One Another

REBUKE false TEACHINGS!

[restornu]

Another example of years and years of Elsie tirade on “out damn spot”

Oh what comfort there is knowing, that no matter how much the anti’s protest yet in the end, the Lord God knows the hearts and minds of all, and who has clean hands..

John 14: 27
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world (anti’s) giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Be of Good Cheer!

John 16
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

D&C 112
4 Let thy heart be of good cheer before my face; and thou shalt bear record of my name, not only unto the Gentiles, but also unto the Jews; and thou shalt send forth my word unto the ends of the earth.

[svcw]

Deu 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. Deu 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? Deu 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Jer 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

[Elsie]

Oh what comfort there is knowing, that no matter how much the anti’s protest yet in the end, the Lord God knows the hearts and minds of all, and who has clean hands..

Your Steno is doing really good today!

[Clinging Bitterly]

self bump to see wtf later

[Elsie]

Busted...

[T Minus Four]

a lot has changed since 2008 and if you read my other postings you would known that

Yes Resty, be sure and lecture Jim about how he doesn't seem to really know what's going on around here on FR. Unlike you.

I will ask you again, is there one single thing you do like about Free Republic, other than it's free?

Courtesy ping to JimRob.

[Utah Binger]

You've been talking to yourself all day. Listen to this

It will cheer you up my brother. See you in the morning.