i need to invent a transporter system for groceries, connected to an automated online ordering system. it's easy to imagine how this would work.
you go to the factory's website and you checkmark off what you want. that order will get downloaded into a robot, which will collect the order and bring it to the transporter. the robot pushes a button and the food then appears in your kitchen.
i mean, walking is healthy and blahblahblah but all this wonderful choice we get in our capitalist economy can be hard on the feet, especially if you're looking for tomatoes. it's really bizarre that i can live 50 miles from one of the biggest tomato producing regions on the continent and have to go to four stores to exercise my freedom to choose tomatoes that aren't bruised and moldy. i was on my feet for five hours today...
Friday, August 1, 2014
actually, it's still throttling, just not up to 301. mosh pit song says 230+ hits - because that's the reach i've got. that was almost 100 yesterday. but they're only counting 13 of those.
they may have changed their metrics. the trailer ought to count as a hit because somebody clicked the name, indicating interest. somebody at youtube may have decided otherwise.
but, as i mentioned, it's the exposure that is important - not the hits. if they want everything to sit at 301, so be it. but that doesn't imply i'm getting less exposure, it just means the site is now useless at measuring it. i mean, the 231 number measures something more *valuable* to me than the 13 number, whether youtube employees think otherwise or not.
so, that's really the conclusion: i should keep trolling, because i'm generating a lot of traffic, but the google analytics are now entirely worthless in measuring that traffic....
i mean, the hit count only meant anything to me in the first place *because* it measured traffic. if it doesn't measure traffic, why would any musician care about it at all?
what i'll say, at the least, is that it breaks the psychological block. i don't care at all anymore because it doesn't mean anything...
if anybody from youtube is spying on me, though, answer me this: how am i now supposed to have an understanding of how many people i'm *reaching* through my youtube advertising?
again: i'm not thinking there's any real conspiracy here, but i do think that the people that work for the company may be living in some kind of lalaland where they think they're running a site where everybody aspires to be that fucking moron with the lightsabers or something.
it's just a lack of any real connection to reality.
marketing reach is important. how many people explicitly clicked the link is not important.
they may have changed their metrics. the trailer ought to count as a hit because somebody clicked the name, indicating interest. somebody at youtube may have decided otherwise.
but, as i mentioned, it's the exposure that is important - not the hits. if they want everything to sit at 301, so be it. but that doesn't imply i'm getting less exposure, it just means the site is now useless at measuring it. i mean, the 231 number measures something more *valuable* to me than the 13 number, whether youtube employees think otherwise or not.
so, that's really the conclusion: i should keep trolling, because i'm generating a lot of traffic, but the google analytics are now entirely worthless in measuring that traffic....
i mean, the hit count only meant anything to me in the first place *because* it measured traffic. if it doesn't measure traffic, why would any musician care about it at all?
what i'll say, at the least, is that it breaks the psychological block. i don't care at all anymore because it doesn't mean anything...
if anybody from youtube is spying on me, though, answer me this: how am i now supposed to have an understanding of how many people i'm *reaching* through my youtube advertising?
again: i'm not thinking there's any real conspiracy here, but i do think that the people that work for the company may be living in some kind of lalaland where they think they're running a site where everybody aspires to be that fucking moron with the lightsabers or something.
it's just a lack of any real connection to reality.
marketing reach is important. how many people explicitly clicked the link is not important.
bloody youtube is throttling me again. this graph defies reason, especially considering i know i was getting traffic because:
1) there were other tracks getting hits off the main page.
2) when i swapped the tracks, the hits started counting again.
it just stopped counting hits on this track somewhere on the evening or afternoon of the 29th, and didn't count any over the 30th.
i can make a reasonable estimate that it just flat out "forgot" to count about 100 hits.
i don't think there's some evil, conniving person at youtube getting off of deleting my hits. i think their algorithms just don't work properly. it's not a conspiracy, it's just bad programming.
and i'm not the type that cares about hit counts. i don't aspire to be a "youtube personality", whatever that even means. the exposure is more important to me than the hit count. so, this will not affect my behaviour in any way.
but i do care a bit more about maintaining that growth curve, for psychological reasons, and if they're not counting hits properly then it could break the curve. that's going to piss me off if it happens. and it's really embarrassing for the site that they can't figure out how to program their hit stats properly. they put so much effort into ensuring hits are their "currency", but then they continually fail to administer the system properly.
like any government fails to devise a proper monetary policy, i suppose.
1) there were other tracks getting hits off the main page.
2) when i swapped the tracks, the hits started counting again.
it just stopped counting hits on this track somewhere on the evening or afternoon of the 29th, and didn't count any over the 30th.
i can make a reasonable estimate that it just flat out "forgot" to count about 100 hits.
i don't think there's some evil, conniving person at youtube getting off of deleting my hits. i think their algorithms just don't work properly. it's not a conspiracy, it's just bad programming.
and i'm not the type that cares about hit counts. i don't aspire to be a "youtube personality", whatever that even means. the exposure is more important to me than the hit count. so, this will not affect my behaviour in any way.
but i do care a bit more about maintaining that growth curve, for psychological reasons, and if they're not counting hits properly then it could break the curve. that's going to piss me off if it happens. and it's really embarrassing for the site that they can't figure out how to program their hit stats properly. they put so much effort into ensuring hits are their "currency", but then they continually fail to administer the system properly.
like any government fails to devise a proper monetary policy, i suppose.
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