Who is reading DU besides DUers?

[Botany]

I looked @ a post I made and saw 2 replies but it has been read about 100 times.
Maybe I am slow but I find that strange and wonder who is reading the posts here
besides DUers?

Rush?
Freepers?
Media Members?
Closet Liberals?
Government people?
Agent Mike?
Rove?

:shrug:

[NMDemDist2]

1. Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart's staffs for sure LOL n/t

[cmd]

2. Lots of "lurk" in figuring that one out. n/t

[Botany]

7. I have already sent this problem to the lab.

[Penndems]

3. Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, and perhaps more than

a few Members of Congress and other Democratic politicos. :)

[Botany]

9. I know about Steph .... LOL

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=315x8271

post #3

Stephanie Miller & Me

[Penndems]

11. Y'all make a cute couple!

Hmmm . . . Stephanie is cuddling kinda close there . . . ;)

[Botany]

14. What she really likes about me is ....

.... I live in Ohio

(because she lives in California) :rofl: :blush:

[Penndems]

LOL!

n/t

[liberal N proud]

4. NSA

[Tellurian]

10. Leno & Conan.

hear recast renditions for joke material.

[theoldman]

5. I suspect that many DUers like myself read a lot of the posts

without making comments. There are probably a lot of Freepers reading the posts.

[blm]

6. I know some media and their production staff read DU, though some prefer to believe

otherwise. A few of them are prominent reporters and every now and then we have effected their stories. My guess is that longtime and alert DUers have figured that out already.

[ThatsMyBarack]

8. Santa Claus....

....and Hanukkah Harry! :rofl:

[2Design]

how csn you tell how many times it was read? n/t

[Mist]

15. The number of "views" is recorded--go to the forum where the post was

originally posted. The column on the right has number of views.

[Greybnk48]

12. I read most of the posts on here everyday, just about,

but seldom comment. I'm sure there are many DU'ers who do the same.

[nuxvomica]

13. Former members of the disbanded al Qaeda task force

They've been reassigned to reading DU.

[sniffa]

16. mephisto

do the deviL's dance.

[peacetalksforall]

17. THird job. Fewer responses escalated when some of took a third job?

Botany, please tell us what the report from the lab says. :o)

[Macoy45]

18. Lurking Proud

Hi, I have been a lurker for several years now, didn't even get a log-in until a few months ago. But in response to your question, I read but do not post (normaly) becouse I am more interested in seeing other points of views than posting my own POV. Not to mention that by the time I get to a thread, all the good replys have been taken. lol

Macoy

[elehhhhna]

19. Welcome to DU, Macoy!

[NMDemDist2]

22. welcome to DU Macoy45

and lurk to your heart's content

:hi:

[blondeatlast]

24. "All the good replies have been taken." So very true! LOL!

Welcome to DU--or, well, welcome to posting!

You're overdue for a brew, I guess! :toast:

[Botany]

27. Well the report has been compiled on DUers, Lurkers, and Closet Readers.

Testing on DU's internet traffic using a reverse gamma tracking cookie
was done. Before the data could be downloaded to lab's geosynchronous
mega kilobyte uplink it was removed and transfered here:



A computer @ NSA HQs.

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,101803,00.jpg

NSA HQ Ft. Meade, MD.

[Mabus]

20. DU Associates

I've turned several people on to DU. They read but don't post. Better yet, they tell their friends. The other day I got a link to DU from a friend of a friend. They were telling me what a treasure trove of information this place was and that I should check it out.

[ChaoticSilly]

21. Another lurker here

As you can see by my low post count, I do much more reading than posting. Most of the time what I want to say has already been said and said in a better way than what I could manage.

Now excuse me while I go report to Agent Mike what was said in the last 3 threads. :evilgrin:

[Nederland]

23. No one

DU is a giant collection of choir members and preachers.

[blondeatlast]

25. Do you preach or sing? nt

[applegrove]

26. Personally - I read 10 times more posts than I reply to. Sometimes you

just have nothing to say.

[Kelly Rupert]

28. I read far more posts than I reply to. And then you have to count the lurk factor.

The numbers aren't any different than you'd find at any other forum.