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Tim
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Sep 6, 2003, 6:24 PM

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Welcome to the gerontius forum! We hope the forum will allow singers, conductors and others involved in singing and choral music to exchange information and ideas.

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hague161
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Oct 29, 2010, 11:51 PM

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The only thing wrong with your forum is that your members seem to be allergic to replying. Where's the fun in unanswered questions? Why do you suppose this is?

hague161
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Nov 1, 2010, 8:48 AM

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Tim can you try to do something about your members unwillingness to participate in discussion on a discussion forum please? Try suspending operations for a while and see if that wakes people up! On a genuine discussion forum a suggestion such as this would provoke massive response. Let's see what happens shall we?

Tim
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Nov 1, 2010, 9:07 PM

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Hi, I appreciate your concern. I've always taken the view that you can't force people to participate .... But I agree, it would be nice if people were more willing to post replies ....

Tim

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roger_miller
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Nov 2, 2010, 1:52 PM

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Those view numbers look suspiciously high to me Tim. Is there any way you can check whether they are being generated by real people?

I see the forums as being more like notice boards than discussion groups and it's the adverts for singing days etc that I'm mostly interested in. These don't involve a forum reply as I would contact the organising group directly.

Roger

hague161
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Nov 2, 2010, 6:45 PM

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Yes, but look at the unPC advice post. Now that is a genuine question that lots of people might have a view on. Did you look at that one Roger (I bet you did) it's had 10k views and how many replies? 2 I think. You might have a point, maybe the views aren't genuine, although I don't know how they could be generated artificially or why anyone would want to.

Tim
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Nov 2, 2010, 8:29 PM

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I think the views may be artificially high. The logs show that the google spider and other search engines spiders visit the site frequently, so I think some of the page views are caused by them. (A spider is a program which collects pages from websites so the content can be added to the search engine's index and used to provide search results).

Tim

hague161
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Nov 2, 2010, 8:34 PM

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Now I see - Older and wiser - still maybe there's room for improvement.

jessicapatel123
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Oct 10, 2016, 11:17 AM

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hello everyone i'm new user your website.

regards
jessica patel

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