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Charity
2008-02-12, 04:48 AM
I'm not sure where they get their info on this site, full of cookie goodness no doubt.
http://www.quantcast.com/giantitp.com
Interesting when you look at the Affinities.

http://www.quantcast.com/boardgamegeek.com
http://www.quantcast.com/schlockmercenary.com

must stop ...
http://www.quantcast.com/xkcd.com
damnit.

Edit -oo http://www.quantcast.com/bbc.com
Archonic Energy
2008-02-12, 05:00 AM
heh...
http://www.quantcast.com/quantcast.com
:smallamused:

yes some of the stats for GITP are quite intresting...

5% of the audience of GITP "viewers" are addicts
that 5% use 28% of the total visits.
Tempest Fennac
2008-02-12, 05:42 AM
It is really worrying about how they can get this information. This is why I try to get rid of Spybots which may infect my computer.
Captain van der Decken
2008-02-12, 06:19 AM
http://www.quantcast.com/how-quantcast-works.jsp

Doesn't look like spyware to me.
Tempest Fennac
2008-02-12, 06:23 AM
Do you have any ideas which may work against this particular program? (I'm not very good with computers).
Archonic Energy
2008-02-12, 06:33 AM
it's not a program...

you can't get rid of it.

read http://www.quantcast.com/how-quantcast-works.jsp

Link shamelessly stolen from ^^
Justyn
2008-02-12, 06:46 AM
*Looks at keywords*

#9: Lolicon...

I really should not think too deeply into what this intails.


To those of you who don't know what lolicon is, Wikipedia can "help" there. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon)
Rayzin
2008-02-12, 06:58 AM
Has anyone actually said that in this forum before??Other than just right now.
Narmoth
2008-02-12, 07:15 AM
in short, they can see your computers adress and count how many times you wisit. I guess they find the age either by looking at the age you register with at the forum, or the age of the registered owner for your computer
Khanderas
2008-02-12, 07:15 AM
... Happiness is Mandatory.
BRC
2008-02-12, 08:17 AM
... Happiness is Mandatory.

Doubleplusgood.
Kaelaroth
2008-02-12, 08:23 AM
Doubleplusgood.

That always got on my nerves. How would one emulate "badness"? Halfminusbad? Or doubleplusbad? The first indicates less badness (you're halving the little badness), but the latter makes badness sound good. :smallsigh:


... Happiness is Mandatory.

Welcome to the Twilight Zone! :smalltongue:
Tempest Fennac
2008-02-12, 08:24 AM
I think it was more a case of making people think things weren't bad. The term would be ungood.
PhoeKun
2008-02-12, 09:18 AM
That always got on my nerves. How would one emulate "badness"? Halfminusbad? Or doubleplusbad? The first indicates less badness (you're halving the little badness), but the latter makes badness sound good. :smallsigh:

You've not read 1984?

It's doubleplusungood. *shrug*
Terumitsu
2008-02-12, 09:20 AM
That always got on my nerves. How would one emulate "badness"? Halfminusbad? Or doubleplusbad? The first indicates less badness (you're halving the little badness), but the latter makes badness sound good. :smallsigh:

Ah, newspeak... How fun. It is certanly an odd idea for how a language would progress but I think it would be horrific if it got to that point.

But as a little tip, all things are done in the positive light and then the prefix 'un-' is slapped on the 'good' part of it. So: "doubleplusungood" Or "very, very bad."

But as for topic bits, It makes me wonder who took the time to set up that site... Although I will say it is quite amusing to see the estimations there...