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Jacob Bugge
Jacob Bugge
Community Expert
June 11, 2012
Question

A rift in the time space continuum

  • June 11, 2012
  • 6 replies
  • 6780 views

Have a look at date/time of the  OP and then the posts here:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/502084?tstart=0

Posts # 1-11 are two years and a half before the OP, including post #9 by the OP (poster), posts # 12-13 are half a year before it.

And more than 31,000 (pre)views as shown in the list of threads.

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    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    July 8, 2012

    It seems to be settling at some 1,100 - 1,200 views every day, 14,133 in the latest 12 days without new posts, now a total of 345,977.

    It may have decided to secure its top position in Popular Discussions forever, or until the end, whichever occurs first.

    http://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator/illustrator_general?view=discussions#/?per_page=100

    TerriStone
    Adobe Employee
    TerriStone
    Adobe Employee
    July 8, 2012

    Jacob, I did bring this odd behavior to the attention of the research group inside Community Help & Learning in June. I don't know what they'll do to address the problem, but obviously it's something we have to fix!

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    July 8, 2012

    Would it not be a pity to fix it, and never know what might happen, Terri?

    If you must, you may start with the thread linked to in the OP.

    Ultimately, it may be impossible to say whether it is actually a problem and something to fix.

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    June 25, 2012

    The growth of the number of views has calmed down to just over 11,000 in 10 days, so we are on our way down to 1,000 every day. The total is/was 331,844 just now/before.

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    June 14, 2012

    The  number of views in the thread mentioned in post #5 has grown by more than 4,000 in two days, to almost 320,000.

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    June 15, 2012

    Jacob,

    That is unreal. Something odd is happening.

    I cannot imagine 320K views, if the title was "Adobe Giving Away Free CS 6 Suites!" That would probably only get about 10K views.

    Do we know if there was any spam posted to that thread? Even if it was offers for free unreleased Summer Blockbuster films, I cannot imagine generating 320K views. I mean this is a fairly small communtiy, as opposed to some other forums. My mind is spinning, with not logical thoughts coming through.

    Maybe John C., or another Adobe person, can look behind the curtain, and let us know what the deal is.

    I have not seen such elsewhere, but will keep my eyes open for it.

    Hunt

    A
    Anonymous
    June 12, 2012

    I occocaionally see thread that are several years old.  Fools me as I usually don't look at date and I respond like it is new.

    Not uncommon to see threads that are several days or weeks old pop to the top without any comments.  Maybe see this once every couple of weeks in Photoshop forum.

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    June 12, 2012

    Indeed, John, but that leaves the date of the OP unchanged.

    Here is another thread showing an even greater rift in the timespace continuum, going back into the days of the fair forums, and the number of views is ten times larger, more than 315,000.

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/319423?tstart=0

    It seems that the time/date of the OP is just about the same as for the other thread, before the latest change by John.

    In both cases, there is/was no new post in the first month after the OP.

    This makes it rather a coincidence that someone should go in and edit the OP in two old unrelated threads, and rather strange that it should suddenly attract posters in both threads just about one month later.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Brainiac
    June 12, 2012

    Jacob Bugge wrote:

    Indeed, John, but that leaves the date of the OP unchanged.

    ...


    This makes it rather a coincidence that someone should go in and edit the OP in two old unrelated threads, and rather strange that it should suddenly attract posters in both threads just about one month later.

    Does it, Jacob? I thought that in cases of spam, the date of the OP was changed for several days, after which it went back to normal. And I see nothing strange in spammers choosing highly visited old threads...

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    June 12, 2012

    Claudio,

    I am quite sure that removal of a spam post will only change the Last post date in the forum thread list so it looks funny at the top with an old date.

    I believe I have never seen or heard of any changes to old posts, including the OP, in the thread itself.

    adobe-admin
    Community Manager
    adobe-adminCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 11, 2012

    The date/time on the initial message shows the last time it was edited. Someone might have edited the message (removed an email address or phone number, or something like that) on April 18.

    I'll edit it again and see if it updates to today's date.

    adobe-admin
    Community Manager
    adobe-adminCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 11, 2012

    Yes. As expected it now says Jun 11

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob BuggeAuthor
    Community Expert
    June 11, 2012

    Ah, thank you, John.

    But when I looked at the Illustrator forum thread list it said Last Post 2 years ago (by the OP) and Modify Date 58 minutes ago, although the last post was then 58 minutes ago and the OP and posts #11 were 2(½) years ago.

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