Topic 47 of 109: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (08:16) |
wer (KitchenManager)
http://www.webring.org/
41 responses total.
Topic 47 of 109 [web]: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Response 1 of 41: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (10:15) * 3 lines
I don't know. How effective are they? Is there anything statistically
about how they improve website traffic? There aren't any barriers to
joining so there's no quality control right?
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Response 2 of 41: wer (wer) * Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (11:19) * 1 lines
quality control depends upon the ring...
Topic 47 of 109 [web]: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Response 3 of 41: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 22, 1998 (10:32) * 2 lines
Should we be in a ring?
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Response 4 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jun 23, 1998 (00:34) * 3 lines
The food conference is, the chocoholics unite! topic in food is,
the genx storybook is, and the genx conference probably will
be...let the research coninue before we branch out more than that...
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Response 5 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (22:13) * 1 lines
I have a poetry ring at my site (i don't own it) but we could submit the poetry topic to them, you think?
Topic 47 of 109 [web]: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Response 6 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (22:14) * 1 lines
how does one go about starting their own ring?
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Response 7 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (00:35) * 1 lines
ooh...that's a long answer, Wolf...
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Response 8 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (00:49) * 1 lines
just give me a url and i'll take it from there *smile*
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Response 9 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (00:59) * 3 lines
http://www.webring.org/
look around for something like join
and/or start your own webring...
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Response 10 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (01:00) * 1 lines
cool, thanks, probably try it tomorrow *smile*
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Response 11 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (01:03) * 1 lines
okeedokee...
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Response 12 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (01:03) * 5 lines
sorry to do this to ya buddy, but i'm way tired, my poor eyeballs are burning...
so you have a good night, y'hear? (what it is, all this waiting around for
replies, i do it the hard way, and staring at the screen just wears them
retinas out!)
Topic 47 of 109 [web]: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Response 13 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (01:06) * 1 lines
sweet and/or sweaty dreams!
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Response 14 of 41: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (09:10) * 1 lines
Actually, our http://www.repeater.org website is on a webring.
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Response 15 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (11:45) * 1 lines
wer: had nothing but nightmares :(
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Response 16 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (15:14) * 1 lines
fun, isn't it...
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Response 17 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:27) * 1 lines
guess what i did? no, not that, silly goose, i submitted my own webring, woohoo, now the hard part, creating all the junk that goes with it!
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Response 18 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:31) * 1 lines
yeah, but I bet you did the other, also...
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Response 19 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:33) * 1 lines
hmmmm......
Topic 47 of 109 [web]: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Response 20 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:35) * 1 lines
just like I thought...
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Response 21 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:36) * 3 lines
don't know what you created yours for,
but did you know that this morning there
were 601 rings with the keyword poetry?
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Response 22 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:40) * 1 lines
uh-oh.....no, i didn't *lookin' at the floor with sad puppy dog eyes*
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Response 23 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (02:02) * 1 lines
I guess that means there is now 602, hmm?
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Response 24 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (10:54) * 1 lines
actually, it won't be listed until there are 5 sites in my ring...
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Response 25 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (10:58) * 1 lines
(btw, tried to log in as wolf to no avail)
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Response 26 of 41: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (11:30) * 2 lines
Log in to where, wolf?
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Response 27 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (12:18) * 1 lines
onto the spring...or is this not the place where i do it?
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Response 28 of 41: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (12:18) * 1 lines
and nick thinks he's computer illiterate *wink*
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Response 29 of 41: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (12:57) * 6 lines
i'm not sure if i like the idea of spring conferences being part of a webring.
at least not without fully informing the people who post there of that fact.
to be honest, i'm concerned with the freedom that people without IDs have to roam through the conferences, reading whatever they like without ever being part of what's going on. perhaps there should be a few open conferences, just to show guests what it's like, but the rest requiring the person to be registered.
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Response 30 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (13:48) * 2 lines
I disagree for one reason...it's free. If we paid a membership, or dues,
or whatever, then I think that would be reasonable.
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Response 31 of 41: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:57) * 4 lines
i can't agree. membership is membership whether it's paid for fiscally or not.
we're paying in attention-span, rather than physical (or electronic :) money.
we're in the "Attention Economy" area, as Wired so pointlessly term it.
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Response 32 of 41: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:58) * 2 lines
also, having every conference open encourages lurking. we've already seen the massive amount of hits some places are getting (like 3000 a day or something, i think), and you yourself wer commented on how many of them must be lurking. all of the /public/* conference links encourage lurking, not participation.
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Response 33 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (19:06) * 4 lines
terry's latest topic, how many people logged into the Spring today?,
in porch about log-ins is actual log-ins of users...
being a member doesn't seem to be discouraging lurkers, either...
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Response 34 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (19:08) * 4 lines
and you and I, etc., are paying with participation,
lurkers pay with attention, that's fine by me,
they're paying as you put it and may very well participate
when they feel comfortable...
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Response 35 of 41: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (19:15) * 1 lines
web-ring links reduce the "worth" of this place, imo. it's no longer somewhere where people choose to go, even just through clicking a web-search link, it's just a turn up of the web-ring "random site" click-thru brigade.
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Response 36 of 41: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (19:41) * 2 lines
but they also have option of picking it out of the
index of sites for that ring...
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Response 37 of 41: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Aug 20, 1999 (22:37) * 1 lines
I am still hunting one for Geo Conference. We had one all picked out and it was locked. I think, the more specific the conference subject the better it is to be linked. There are so many for general topics ( Books and Politics eg.) that they are impossible to wade through and it is easier to use a search engine.
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Response 38 of 41: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (18:56) * 3 lines
ok, you're looking to do a webring for geo sites, right? you can create it for as specific as you like plus, on the submittal page, you tell folks the criteria they need to meet in order to be placed in the ring. i've been invited to join rings just by being listed in the webring directory!
oh, and speaking of webrings, i've got an animal ring that i'll submit springark to.
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Response 39 of 41: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (23:26) * 3 lines
We - he and I chose a perfect one for Geo and it was locked and accepting no
new sites. Until I can consult about it with cfadm, I will hold off for a while longer. At some point we NEED to get one going, and I am still chekcing with
webring.com frequently. When I get out of telnet I will email you and ask how you did it...ok?!
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Response 40 of 41: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (01:12) * 1 lines
Still ringless. Not sure it is a good idea. Wolfie, and way to know how many hits on your conferences are the result of belonging to a webring?
Topic 47 of 109 [web]: Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?
Response 41 of 41: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (01:15) * 1 lines
..that should be...any way to know...? It still would be nice to have one for Geo, I think...! (going to bed before I mess up anything else!)
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