<Oil Price Poll ReduxThe Oil DrumDrumBeat: July 30, 2006>

115 comments on Riddle Me This, Batman...

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Nate Hagens on July 29, 2006 - 11:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Cold winter, hurricane in gulf, $80 oil, and continued good content will do it for you.
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fleam on July 29, 2006 - 11:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I agree.

This site is destined to become a "superstar" since That Other Site is taking on more of a "nuke their ass, we want their gas" attitude, between all the junk about wanting a girlfriend, whether 9-11 was a hoax, substitutes for The Blue Pill, and other dreck.

Keeping it on the PO topic, keeping it high quality, is the way to go.

I think the point of this thread is, the Original Poster wants to get suggestions for how to get MORE hits even though this site is growing exponentially. Because MORE is GOOD.

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Anna on July 30, 2006 - 1:38am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
> That Other Site

which other site?  initials at least, please, for us lazy and clueless?

A conceivable reason for the low linkage would be if TOD's readers tend not to be bloggers themselves.  Is this true? HIIK.
(new acronym, disguising profanity, so as not to alarm the net nanny SW)

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fleam on July 30, 2006 - 2:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
peakoil.com
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MicroHydro on July 30, 2006 - 6:23am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Agree.  Although I haven't posted at PO.com for over three months, every time I lurk over and take a peak there, my doomerosity level goes up.  The tone has become very nasty and brutish.  As Monbiot has famously remarked, post peak "We will all go back to fighting like cats in a sack."
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DelusionaL on July 30, 2006 - 9:10am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks for the warning.  This seems sadly serious enough.  The other site sounds like I should buy ammo.
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TrueKaiser on July 30, 2006 - 10:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
the other site was over-run with gun maniacs who want to emulate john Wayne.
they don't seem to understand that having a arsenal at your disposal just makes you a big target for any government crackdown that will happen as depletion kicks in.
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jim burke on July 30, 2006 - 9:22pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This question will undoubtedly peg me as html illiterate, but is there a trip meter somewhere on this page? I often wonder what sort of traffic we get, and I'm not sure where to go look, except when you post threads like this and explicitly tell us....
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Prof. Goose on July 30, 2006 - 9:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
there's a link to it up there in the post, but there's also a permanent link (a green box) over in the right sidebar, pretty far down called "sitemeter"
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Jon Kutz on July 30, 2006 - 11:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"MORE is GOOD"

Hummm, this sounds like something I would hear from Walmart?
Seriously, how many and who do you really want coming to this site?
If you had 5 million people coming here every day could we even begin to wade through all the posts and would there be enough of them on "Peak Oil" to justify the time and effort of those of us who come here particularly for the technical information? (And the level of technical information is really great ! Thank you to all those with the capability to provide all the great articles and graphs - which I love even if it does take long down loads on my slow rural dial-up account)
The fact that there are some very valuable bits of information in some of the comments makes it worth it now to wade through the large amount of off topic stuff to find the good technical information. If the level of comment posting goes up significantly I would have to cease to go through the comments just from a time standpoint. And I am afraid the noise ratio of off vs on topic posts would get much greater.
I think the old addage of "Think carefully what you ask for, you just might get it" comes in to play.
Was only going to put my 2 cents worth in and rang up a 15 dollar rant. Sorry.

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Kevembuangga on July 30, 2006 - 11:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
+1

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jim burke on July 30, 2006 - 9:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I completely agree. I used to like Daily Kos, but as millions of people come there and post, the level of discourse descends until it is sometimes little better than reading graffiti on the bathroom walls. "Fuck Bush" and etc.

This site is outstanding, in part because of the collegiality that comes from not being overrun.

What matters is not the numbers of people we get, but the quality. For instance, I'd be willing to bet that the writers of the Chicago Trib piece on Peak Oil lurked on our site, in order to help with their research. There needs to be a place where reasonable people can go to get quality information and reasonable, (mostly) civil discourse.

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earldaily on July 31, 2006 - 12:49am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I hope you can forgive me for what follow my post bellow. I did not intend it to go the direction it went. again sorry

if I had the communication skills required to be an effective contributer here at tod my post would have sounded alot more like jon kutz's

again sorry for the... you know

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Vintermann on July 31, 2006 - 4:55am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The higher the traffic, the more pressing the need for some kind of moderation. Why not just use reddit? Disable comments,  instead write "discussion on reddit", and you got a great feedback/moderation system for free.
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Aklblue on July 30, 2006 - 6:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I have found now that DIGG has a political section, that more and more stories are appearing on subjects like oil, and resource related conflicts (Iraq, Iran etc)... so I set myself up an account, and post comments, linked back here...

There is still a lot of misinformation out there, which we can set straight ..  I think DIGG, and others are a good place to raise awareness out there in cyberland, and especially with the younger demographic that tends to be online, who are large consumers, and tend to make better informed decisions (think buying economical cars, voting etc)..

I encourage all TOD'rs to create accounts and get linking !!

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Prof. Goose on July 30, 2006 - 7:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
amen and amen.  digg, reddit, name it.  that's what those icons are for under the titles of the articles!
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