From CGI member, Morgan. CGI is RMN's readers forum. Come join us!!

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2020/05/may-ineffable-lord-of-all-things-grant.html

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It is not the easiest thing in the world to find a happy medium, doing what I do, because the audience comprises a wide-angle, panorama expanse of reader types. We have visitors devoted to what gets talked about here and who have been coming around for years, even decades. We have casual visitors who miss more posts than they see and those who come around very randomly. We have new readers that show up on a regular basis and that has been increasing of late. We also have those who get seriously put off by what they encounter and who like to react with different degrees of unpleasantness. Some of them have also been coming for years and even decades also and some of them read everything we put up. They may not know why they come around but... I do. The motives for that are not really germane, concerning the purpose of this posting, so we won't go into it. Even if it were relevant it would also be futile and I am not motivated by futile. I've had enough Sisyphus-Envy to last more lifetimes than I have pending; something we also won't be getting into.

Statisticians have been at their game for a long time and there are industries that rely heavily upon statistics because statistics drive the nature of their presentations and their approach. What statisticians have found about traffic norms on the internet is that very few of the visitors to a site leave a comment and that most of the time the comments are anonymous. Most of a site's visitors will NEVER leave a comment, even if they have been coming for years. If you are selling things, only a small percentage of your visitors will buy anything, UNLESS they came specifically for that reason. VERY FEW visitors will ever leave a donation and if the website owner does not harass the readers for donations, the donations will be significantly less frequent and that accounts for the relentless efforts on the parts of various webmasters to present themselves to be in dire financial straits on a regular basis, as if CRISIS MODE was their normal operating state. Interestingly, most of them continue to remain solvent and afloat and I suspect that regardless of their claims to the contrary, they are doing VERY WELL.

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