Recent Poll...
Tuesday, September 2, 2003 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
OK someone lied to me...
I once once told that a mojority og WC users are not from the US but...
According to this poll we Americans seem to be ahead.
Who lied to me?
(please no flaming)
I once once told that a mojority og WC users are not from the US but...
According to this poll we Americans seem to be ahead.
Who lied to me?
(please no flaming)
kona0197
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 3:57 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 3:57 PM
can't remember, lol. it was way back in the days when all i did was troll and flame on the boards.
jafo might remember, lol
jafo might remember, lol
WOM
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 4:05 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 4:05 PM
Kona, it will be a close poll. Remember, you won'tget 1% responding to it. So it won't be accurate. Over 700,000 members and my guess is that if everyone voted the world would win out over the US.
DavidK
Reply #4 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 4:10 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 4:10 PM
If everyone voted we wouldn't have a moron in the Whitehouse and the world would be a much safer place...
oops... wrong thread 
sig101
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 6:59 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 6:59 PM
See Frogboy's recent news item regarding stats on site visitors and use. Much more accurate than a poll because it's based on the website's logs which records such info. In his news item he has this statement: "Overall, 36% of WC's traffic comes from foreign domains." Which logically would suggest that 64% of the traffic is from domestic domains. https://www.wincustomize.com/newsBoard.asp?ID=1893
Jafo
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 7:49 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 7:49 PM
653 to 628 ....'majority' to be pedantic but 50/50 to be 'fair'...
kona0197
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 11:03 PM
does that mean all that comes from the US?
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 11:03 PM
| 64% of the traffic is from domestic domains. |
does that mean all that comes from the US?
MadIce
Reply #10 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 5:35 AM
Reply #10 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 5:35 AM
sig101: Brad also stated that "Nearly 57,000 visitors from Japan. The .jp domain is the #1 country domain (i.e. not a .com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu)."
This would suggest that .com, .net and maybe .org (he didn't name that) would be from the US. Since several years these extensions can be used by non-US countries too. In my country we see a lot of these extensions and I worked for several Dutch companies that onwed one. So his 36% would be a minimum.
[Message Edited]
This would suggest that .com, .net and maybe .org (he didn't name that) would be from the US. Since several years these extensions can be used by non-US countries too. In my country we see a lot of these extensions and I worked for several Dutch companies that onwed one. So his 36% would be a minimum.
[Message Edited]
craeonics
Reply #11 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 7:59 AM
Reply #11 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 7:59 AM
Exactly, my ISP has a .net domain, so every post I make from home will be from a "domestic" domain. It's perhaps better to go by ip adresses and dig up which zone they belong to.
Anyhow, polls only represent the choices of those who voted on them. Nothing more, nothing less.
Anyhow, polls only represent the choices of those who voted on them. Nothing more, nothing less.
paxx
Reply #13 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 9:58 AM
Reply #13 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 9:58 AM
Indeed, you can't rely on the domain suffixes to determine to country origin. A lot of ISP's around the world use the .NET suffixe, just a a lot of corporations use the .COM suffixe, no matter what country they're in. There's this perception that .COM sounds more serious. My own web site is a dot com, althought it's incorporated in Canada.
As for the polls
This last poll:
Do you live in the United States?
Yes, live in USA : 667
No, live outside USA : 651
A previous poll:
Where are you from?
United States: 577
Canada: 113
Japan: 20
UK: 105
Europe (including Russia): 301
Somewhere else (like Brazil): 141
The above brings the US/non-US people to 577/680.
[Message Edited]
As for the polls
This last poll:
Do you live in the United States?
Yes, live in USA : 667
No, live outside USA : 651
A previous poll:
Where are you from?
United States: 577
Canada: 113
Japan: 20
UK: 105
Europe (including Russia): 301
Somewhere else (like Brazil): 141
The above brings the US/non-US people to 577/680.
[Message Edited]
craeonics
Reply #14 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 10:57 AM
Reply #14 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 10:57 AM
.com sounding so serious is the exact reason why I picked .net for my domain (.org sounds too vague). I wanted something international, so a .nl was out of the question.
craeonics
Reply #15 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:08 AM
Reply #15 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:08 AM
.com sounding so serious is the exact reason why I picked .net for my domain (.org sounds too vague). I wanted something international, so a .nl was out of the question.
paxx
Reply #16 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:27 AM
Reply #16 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:27 AM
What's with posting the same thing twice, 11 minutes apart? 
aufisch
Reply #17 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 2:04 PM
I think it must have been very late at night in Holland
aufisch brings craeonics some coffee and then goes on to tell kona a lie
Reply #17 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 2:04 PM
| What's with posting the same thing twice, 11 minutes apart? |
I think it must have been very late at night in Holland
aufisch brings craeonics some coffee and then goes on to tell kona a lie
kona0197
Reply #19 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 3:15 PM
Reply #19 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 3:15 PM
| aufisch brings craeonics some coffee and then goes on to tell kona a lie |
craeonics
Reply #20 Thursday, September 4, 2003 12:44 AM
Reply #20 Thursday, September 4, 2003 12:44 AM
Router crashed/restarted whilst posting.
Either that, or I was caught in a time warp for eleven minutes. Time runs slow late at night.
Either that, or I was caught in a time warp for eleven minutes. Time runs slow late at night.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 3:55 PM
Well 'who lied to you' would all depend on who told you the above statement, huh?