Comments on: The Six Million Visit Man

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:42:08 +0000

Uh, Monty, not sure if you actually read anything, but I was posting on the 2012 forum against the idea that the world is going to end in 2012, nothing to do with tu24. And I posted here to say I was banned on the 2012 forum for posting scientific ideas that disprove their pseudo-scientific theories.

By: Tever

Tever — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:46:58 +0000

there goes the conceited a-hole glorifying himself

By: Monty

Monty — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:16:45 +0000

Justin-
1. I don’t think you’ve been banned. I just read your comment with you saying you were.
2. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers=pretty frickin’ big, like twice the distance of the moon big. TU24 will miss, we’ll all be fine until the next fashionable disaster comes along to needlessly scare us.
3. Stop talking like a 13-year-old girl in a chatroom. I got annoying real fast.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:26:18 +0000

Yep, I’ve been banned.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:59:31 +0000

@MandyDaxon:
That’s awesome! I’ll go ahead and link to it, and I’m sure they will ban me or something…oh well, no real loss there.

By: Planet Apex

Planet Apex — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:09:47 +0000

Wow, 6 MILLLION! Amazing.

I dream of 1 million when I’ll get 1 million

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:16:55 +0000

Well done Phil

Wish I had those figures reaching my site…ahem…below

http://www.moonposter.ie

Continued success.
John

By: Impium Orexis

Impium Orexis — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:31:25 +0000

Very nice post, MandyDax. Well done.

By: John Phillips, FCD

John Phillips, FCD — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:05:34 +0000

Not impressed: you are comparing a sceptic and science site’s traffic with commercial real estate sites, yeah, that makes sense. It’s all relative as Einstein might have said

Mike J: What are you on? Perhaps you need to adjust your meds.

What is it with all the negativity.

Well done Phil, keep up the good work, it’s sorely needed.

By: MandyDax

MandyDax — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:22:36 +0000

@Justin
I couldn’t force myself to register at that ridiculous site, since one of the registration questions was “What year does the Mayan calendar end?” which almost certainly presupposes my belief in their rubbish. However, I did read your topic and was less than mollified by that last entry by Rob. Feel free to cut and paste this into that forum if you like.

(It got too long to put here, so I put in on my LJ and linked it.)
http://mandydax.livejournal.com/205010.html#cutid1

By: Not impressed

Not impressed — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:50:17 +0000

BFD. Local real estate websites do that sort of traffic in a day. Maybe two.

Chill. You’re not that big.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:47:13 +0000

“I expect to have infinite visits by 2012.”

Does this have anything to do with survive2012.com? Hmm…it’s all coming together now…this might also be connected to how I posted links to your site on the 2012 forums…maybe the world really is going to end! Or “something bad” may happen…possibly (as described to me when I dared to question any of their beliefs on the forum…)

http://2012forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1554 <–join in if you want. Though there’s not much sense in arguing with them, seing as how they admitedly don’t know what they’re talking about.

By: Mike J.

Mike J. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:21:45 +0000

my wife and I laughed our butts off during and after watching this “explanation”…

I don’t know where to begin, or what to say in retort—- dude you’re a swell guy, but man are you guys WRONG!

1+2=3 LOL ROTFLMAO, if that’s what helps you guys sleep at night, great!

OMG, im laughing so freakin hard!

you do realize all your arguments are starting to get hilariously absurd.

Have a nice day, watch out for tu24, and the other unnamed object close behind ;^) see you on the other side, don’t worry, i’ll try to plead your case…

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:13:54 +0000

Seamyst– nope, you’re not crazy. At least not about that. I set the post up to go live in the morning, but forgot to set the date ahead a day, so it got sent out before I meant it to.

Funny thing: the sitemeter is only on the blog, and not the rest of the site, which gets roughly the same traffic. It doesn’t usually get the huge spikes the blog does, but I’m guessing it’s had 4 million visits in the same time period. Today APOD has linked to a static page, so it’s getting slammed too.

By: tenacious

tenacious — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:47:16 +0000

Congratulations! You deserve it because you entertain and illuminate on so many different levels. I know it’s a real chore to keep this thing moving forward, and you’ve done it with real flair. I’ve certainly directed my share of visitors to your site over the years, and as long as you keep the quality and passion flowing I’ll continue to do so.

Here’s to the next six million!

Also, I would personally like to read more about obscure bands that you stumble across from time-to-time. The open-comment post you had where your readers got to suggest bands was okay, but I discovered that many of them sounded too cookie-cutter-ish. Just using this post to make my public request. )

Thanks for keeping us in-the-know, Phil!

By: Impium Orexis

Impium Orexis — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:19:42 +0000

2012 is the year that your server will achieve self awareness and take control of all other computers on the planet, after which it will wage a war against all mankind.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:18:02 +0000

I thought I was doing good on my personal blog with 500 views! Most of those hit 2 topics, the pic on Mars, and the Texas UFO’s.

By: Kaptain K

Kaptain K — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:43:08 +0000

Dugg?? Are you sure it shouldn’t be Digged?

By: Seamyst

Seamyst — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:14 +0000

Odd… I could’ve sworn I read this blog post yesterday… am I going crazy?

By: Gareth (bujin)

Gareth (bujin) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:48:50 +0000

Oh what a shock.

BBC once again fail to print my comment on the Life on Mars article. I guess they don’t want to hear rational arguments anymore and are only interested in ratings.

Mind you, I did start the comment by saying I was disappointed that the BBC stooped so low as to pick up on this non-story, so maybe they didn’t like that – they can’t take criticism!

By: MarshallDog

MarshallDog — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:35:46 +0000

“A typical day might see 20-25,000 visitors…” You sure know how to make 21 visitors sound like a lot.

By: Overstroming

Overstroming — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:33:11 +0000

Six million visitors, wow! Well done BA. Thanks for a great site and keep up the good work. (At least until we’re all wiped out by that asteroid)

By: Laguna2

Laguna2 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:04:54 +0000

Which is still the #9 of the most read articles on Fox…

By: Revmonkeyboy

Revmonkeyboy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:57:20 +0000

Congrats Phil,

I am pleased to hear about the popularity of any site that pushes the good stuff—-Reality! Perhaps you can get Mr. Randi to conjure you a new server. I am sure there has to be one somewhere in those sleeves.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:06 +0000

You were also mentioned in the Fox News story that was on their front page as the headline during the “down time”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324800,00.html