Compulsive obsessive
As part of the management process of any large website, an administrator will carry out regular audits on traffic that enters the site but also traffic that runs from page to page on their site. I tend to do an audit every three months to check that all pages on the site get visited but also to make sure that no bad things have been happening, such as denial of service attacks or other types of floods.
One thing I have noticed is, at times, there are people, who don't like this site, that spend half their life here, visiting and refreshing the pages like they are going out of style. A particular Bigpond ISP subscriber, who I know has vented their spleen regarding some of the content here - not entirely unjustified, though the fact remains - has visited this website no less than sixty-two times between midnight on the 1st January to midday on the 7th January.
When I visit a website I don't like, I mutter a brief expletive to myself, or those next to me, regarding the content, and then I press the back button and I usually never go back. This is considered normal by myself and those I have spoken to about the issue of likable content. Visiting a website every five minutes isn't a crime and I am certainly not one to try and discourage people who enjoy websites like iServ from coming back, infact I like people to visit daily, where possible, because iServ, and sites like it, are updated very often with a wide diversity of material. However, after studying the usage patterns of this particular user I sense a rather slight case of compulsive obsessiveness. However I never highlight a problem without providing some sort of solution and I have the perfect answer for this person.
Buy one of these, restore it, play it in your knitting room and enjoy the sound from the receiver. Being a restorer and collector of these things I can attest to the smooth and accurate tone these things produce which far exceed the quality that comes from anything that is transistorised. Trust me on this: it will cure this person's apparent uncontrollable desire to live here and might cure their IRC addiction as well.
Written at 03:03 on 28 January 2006 by Brad.
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