Friday, October 21, 2016

Something is Gaming Ithaka, Presumably for Penis Extension

There was some suspicion of it already in what drives all these reads during the night with Ithaka but the current What's Hot list shows over four hundred reads for yesterday's What's Hot article.  However, it doesn't show a concomitant increase in reads for articles which were mentioned in it.  Therefore, someone is gaming Ithaka for a penis extension which will (sob) never come.  It's a tragedy, I tell you.

Here's the victim part since What's Hot is the only guidance to what interests readers and distortion in that just moves it to the same class as CNN in which it's not news anymore when it's warped by phony information and bestial propaganda.


There really is a bit of hurty hurt behind that since there doesn't seem much point in doing such a thing, assuming it happens at all, when Ithaka has backed off substantially from political content due to being fed up to the gills with it.

(Ed:  payback?)

Maybe so and that's mindless enough for a politician but they don't usually do anything unless they will get money out of it or they see a way they can so it doesn't make much sense.

(Ed:  are you inventing a conspiracy theory?)

I want that like a snakebite or a kiss from Clinton but the numbers are indisputably twisted when cause and effect disappear faster than a hooker's skivvies.


Rather than getting all victimized the fallback is the review as to whether What's Hot is all that positive anyway since that works like an Ithaka pop bulletin board and the effect of pop bulletin boards everywhere is to prevent progressive music from ever rising in them.  Multiple times articles I've thought deserved more attention than they got have disappeared in interest after they didn't turn up in What's Hot.  In effect, What's Hot keeps Taylor Swift and throws out the jazz.

(Ed:  that's being a tad melodramatic about it!)

Sure but the effect is the same.  In general the judgment from Die Kaninchen seems good and y'all do pick good ones so it is a lament to some extent for those which I thought should have made the cut.

(Ed:  easy thing to fix, ye with a mind like a slab of butter.  Double the number of entries in the Top Ten.)

But Taylor Swift would still be in it.

(Ed:  she's not there now.  Start over.)

Fair enough.  Ithaka doesn't have a course now since it goes wherever interests me so there's no consideration to change it to something else.  It's just running a little weird out there.

(Ed:  three weeks and it's over!)

Yowzah, Yowzah!

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