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I have been here on Foroflamenco for a number of years now and was just thinking about all the different topics of discussion, argument, highs and lows whilst we have been on our flamenco paths. It made me look at the posts which have had the most activity in the last few years. What subjects really made our attention and caused the most debate? What do we like to talk about? Most subjects dont get 1000 hits. Anything above 4000 is an unusually popular thread.
I checked the subjects by numbers of hits. That means not only foro members but people worldwide getting information from Foroflamenco on the following subjects. OFF TOPIC Bad menu translations (norman kliman) 4709 Boars head (pimientito)4922 Taxes, corruption (richard jernigan) 5568 Edwina Currie vs Esperanza Fernandez (pimientito) 5757 (unbelievable!) American freedom (dformell) 6307 How do you cook blood sausage? (kovachian)7684 This photo has been haunting me all week (escribano) 7828 Black hole eats sun (Arash)7850 What is duende? (Andresito) 9046 Finally...playstation 4 is coming 2012 (Arash) 9444
But number one place goes to the deleted thread by a deleted member talking about a certain person who cant be named about a certain product that cant be mentioned. (13165)
From this we can conclude that our members are interested in Food, especially different ways of cooking pigs, politics and a subject so off topic we cant even have it in the off topic section.
LUTHERIE I used to think that the flamencos were the noisy argumentative ones and the luthiers were the quiet even headed types....not so!! They seem to get into very active discussions indeed. Many threads with over 5000 hits.
1943 Santos Hernandez copy COMPLETED (TANunez) 7594 Building guitar 100 (Anders Eliasson) 8537 Economical crisis in Spanish luthiers (gounaro) 8885 About rosettes (Janne H) 8936 Blackshear/Reyes style (Tom Blackshear) 9126 Buying a guitar in Spain (doctorx2k2) 9262 The challenge issued by my school teacher (cRobson12) 10873 Yamaha CG171SF discontinued? (holyevil) 10884 Rosette designer (nhills) 11438 The Guitars of Notable Classical Guitarists (flamenco_9) 13402 New vs old (elgreco) 15486 The building of a Swedish flamenco guitar (per Hallgren) 15813
But I think the winner for number of hits is soundportparty in my patio (anders Eliasson) 24220
As a non luthier I gotta ask....What is it with you guys and rosettes??
GENERAL Ok... now the general section has seen some real drama over the years. Life, death, triumph, failure, incredible kindness, incredible conceitedness....its been a roller coaster of both flamenco and life...BUT, what are the most talked about subjects?
Would you like to have Jason McGuire back on foroflamenco? (rombsix) 8590 Deleted (guest) 9151 Juan Martin vs PdL (Ricardo) 9644 Ordering a Francisco Navarro Guitar - is this a good deal? (apak) 10389 Intermediate Challenge!!! (at_leo_87) 10403 Picado attack, do you really need to choose only ONE? (carloJuan) 10485 Doctor Compas Public Beta Version (jason McGuire) 10943 Flamenco-lessons.com turns 2 - A new challenge... (jason McGuire) 11216 How much do you really enjoy cante flamenco? (apak) 11527 Anyone want technique exercises? I have 304943934 (guitarristamadrid) 11832 Diego del Morao's album approaches!!! (conrad) 13856 Music theory is way too complicated (rogeliocan) 13933 Setting tempo in sibelius? (at leo 87) 13994......why does this have so many hits?? Paco De Lucia using Lester Devoe (buleria74) 14367 Flamenco chord-variation chart (Ramón) 17334 Conde questions (pimientito) 22348 All flamenco chords in Tab (Ricardo) 23967
Yet despite Ricardos chord chart being a sticky at the top of the forum our winner is "Andalusian" Guitars (cRobson12) 24842
From this we can conclude that condes and andalusian guitars remain the most contraversial....that any thread with PDL is a hit.....that our most read threads are the ones by members who are deleted from the forum ...and that while musical theory is way too hard, we simply cant get enough exercises!!!
Haha great post Pimientito. I clearly need to up my "epic-thread-starting" game. Sometimes totally off-topic heated discussions can happen in a seemingly innocuous thread, I'm guessing that's what happened in Anthony's sibelius thread. EDIT, nope, guess not. Must have just been googled by a lot of people outside of the Foro.
It also reminds me of what a relatively small tight-knit community we have here, which is a good thing I think.
I go to a major forum related to another passion of mine and it's not uncommon to see threads with 1,000,000 + hits. But there is so much garbage floating around on that forum due to the number of users that it makes it almost unreadable some times that only rarely happens here.
Are you able to find the one that correlates dicklength with the make of diff cars?
btw I presented the GUI-factor in the offtopic thread which is kind of a bulllshit-index for threads,... but deleted it because didn´t want to make ppl unhappy.
While we are reminiscing. I just did a search and found a classic Graph from doit
By the analysis of this graph, exactly when it turns midnight a gitano immediately starts jabbering only half the sh*t he was saying at 23:59.
Another interesting fact is that all gitanos never stop talking sh*t, even when they are sleeping.
Also very important to mention is that, by an analysis of some threads in this foro, we can state with certainty that Foro Flamenco has a high percentage of gitano members. Including myself...
By the analysis of this graph, exactly when it turns midnight a gitano immediately starts jabbering only half the sh*t he was saying at 23:59.
Another interesting fact is that all gitanos never stop talking sh*t, even when they are sleeping.
Also very important to mention is that, by an analysis of some threads in this foro, we can state with certainty that Foro Flamenco has a high percentage of gitano members. Including myself...
EXACTLY!! That´s a great analysis of the graph! *LIIIKEEE~~* :))) hahaha
ok.. lets face it. Im here only for entertainment purposes..for myself. Why do I only help out with my incredible wisdom and experience about guitar playing in a serious manner in very rare cases?
Answer: Nobody cares because some ppl here established themselves as gurus who appear to be most reliable..(some really know the stuff and I respect that..some are falsely classified as knowing something..but they dont ..really...). However whenever such a person speaks up, the eyes of everybody are not anymore susceptible for taking up useful information from other ppl who actually also know their **** and in many cases even better. Which makes it worthless to put some effort in typing in any tips.
As result..you only get jokes from me. So..its basically..your choice. :P
Ok.. that slide-in of spontaneous seriousness should be enough for 2013.
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