> > > > I happened to bump my "What's Related" button, and, scrolling down to "site info for www.rinkworks.com," it tells me that the popularity is in the top 2996 sites on the web. Now, knowing how many sites there are out there, I think that's a pretty neat accomplishment.
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> Wow! I wish I knew how those statistics were compiled and how accurate it could be. That's truly stunning.
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> > 2996 is extremely good. Again though, I'm not so sure how accurate it is. From what SAM has said about the site's hits though, it gets quite a bit of traffic. I'm always suprised that the message forum is so small, considering the amount of people that visit various RW pages (not that I'm complaining, would hate to have a huge sprawling idiot-filled board).
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> That rather stuns me, too. RinkWorks is up to almost 100,000 hits per weekday (the average is shy of that, but it's exceeded that amount on many occasions), and yet the message forum still seems to be visited, or at least participated in, by a very small percentage. Again, I'm not complaining either, but it's truly odd. The Reader Survey responses I get make a little more sense -- I guess there's a lot of people who just don't care about message forums.

I didn't care for message forums until I stumbled into this one. I avoided them at all costs. I didn't want to be associated with those "dweebs" who had nothing better to do than to post that "junk" for public viewing. Then I saw Rinkworks Forum and I knew that deep inside I too was a dweeb. I too had a lot of non-sensical junk that needed to be a part of the public domain. I too had to share all of my worthless ideas, viewpoints, and "crap" with whoever would listen. Thanks, Sam, for showing me that there is a little dweeb in all of us.

Drac "Quite the influential speaker" imas