, and he's skeptical.
leapt up 1,000 places in a day, and I've noticed some wild fluctuations in link numbers for Reynolds and Malkin. One possible explanation for all this is that NZ periodically cleans out the
, and bloggers purge their systems of spam, which alters the ecosystem's distribution and also changes the "species boundaries," which are probably based on statistical algorithms. The splog purges would tend to impact highly linked blogs more than those of us in the lower life forms, because the larger hit counts are more attractive to the spammers.
I'm not an expert here, and I'm not even sure how splogging works, but from a statistical standpoint it makes sense.
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No, something goofy's going on. Mine's gone up, too.
Posted by: Dave Schuler at August 26, 2005 10:50 AM (GGDE0)
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Wow, I'm a Marauding Marsupial now. Oh, if I only were a higher life form...
Posted by: IO ERROR at August 26, 2005 11:30 AM (HaVXj)
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I'm up almost 1,000 spots. Everyone can't be moving up.
I think there is a bigger explanation out there.
Posted by: Fred Fry at August 26, 2005 12:16 PM (JXdhy)
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I hit
number 3 at one point. Unfortunately, it got corrected...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 26, 2005 12:24 PM (ymzzr)
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This happens now and then. It seems to shake back to where it was before in a week or so.
Posted by: Justene at August 26, 2005 01:37 PM (+akC4)
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Now Michelle isn't even listed! Jawa has dropped one spot, to 19th, and I've risen another 300 places (plus the 1000 I'd already piled up). Definitely something screwy.
Posted by: Demosophist at August 26, 2005 03:31 PM (pW6Hs)
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Don't take my Marauding Marsupial status away!
Posted by: tee bee at August 26, 2005 04:15 PM (q1JHF)
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Dude, you've like, "companion posted at Demosophia" at least 1300 times though. I've counted.
hahahahahahahaha
Posted by: Mad Dog Vinnie at August 26, 2005 04:46 PM (Kr6/f)
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Mad Dog:
Dude, you've like, "companion posted at Demosophia" at least 1300 times though. I've counted.
Yeah, it'd be great if TTLB counted that, but unfortunately it all counts as one link. :-( And since I'm on the blogroll anyway, it's all worthless in terms of the ranking. Now, if it were 1300 separate blogs that'd be different.
Posted by: Demosophist at August 27, 2005 02:18 AM (loZHr)
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Same on mine, which was up to "Flappy Bird" for about a day and a half. It's back down to "Slithering Reptile" now.
Posted by: hatless in hattiesburg at August 27, 2005 05:32 AM (A6UZ4)
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OK, I admit it. Something is really screwed up. My "inbound unique" links dropped in half overnight, yet I'm still listed as a marauding marsupial and I continued to
move up in the ecosystem, and my average daily visits suddenly leapt up by 50%. Total nonsense.
Posted by: Demosophist at August 27, 2005 01:43 PM (zYg27)
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I dropped 8,000 places over the weekend.
My placing is probably more accurate now that my numbers more reflect the number of links that I am amare of which is about 15 and not the 102 the ecosystem seemed to think I had. I wonder if it was counting links from my posts to my blog.
As disheartning as it might be, I would rather have an accurate reading of where my blog stands, which apparently is pretty darn low.
Posted by: Fred Fry at August 29, 2005 08:13 AM (JXdhy)
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