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A rift in the time space continuum

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
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 BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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

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 BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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 BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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 BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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

Inspiring

I just checked some long-running threads elsewhere, and the Views were in the 7K to 8K range, with up to 55 pages of Replies. Even my most popular video articles in Tips & Tricks are 16K to 42K, and those links get posted to three Premiere forums, plus a few Photoshop forums. Not even close to 320K. Now, I feel horribly impotent.

Wish that I could have set up a concession to charge US $1.00 per view...

Yeah, something odd IS happening.

Hunt

adobe-admin

Community Manager

Dang,

It's like a nuclear reactor in melt-down mode. Hope that we are not witnessing a thread going super-nova!

Heck, it's not even THAT interesting a thread, but seems to be wildly popular - with someone.

I keep trying to figure out how a spammer could be involved, but haven't a clue.

Hunt

Sorry, no idea on the view count for that thread.

Right now it is at 321,130 views. Let's see what happens over the next few days.

A

Anonymous

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 BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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

Brainiac

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 BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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

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

Yes. As expected it now says Jun 11

Jacob BuggeAuthor

Community Expert

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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