" I'd love an account of why anyone should care in the least about SSC
download statistics, beyond personal vanity. "
Not exactly the same as fake clicks on ads for your competitors on Google,
is it?
HTH
Martin
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Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Nick Winter
Gesendet: Montag, 7. Dezember 2009 16:31
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: re: SSC Activity, November 2009
I'd love an account of why anyone should care in the least about SSC
download statistics, beyond personal vanity. (Which I don't discount,
or scorn--at times when I had somewhat more popular programs, I would
eagerly look each month to see where they were in the rankings. But in
the end, so what?)
Nick Winter
David Kantor wrote:
> I am not advocating for one side or another, but I want to add the
> possibility that if a particular program is mentioned on this list, then
> possibly many readers will learn about it for the first time and decide
> to download it -- all within a short time interval.
>
> --David
>
> At 09:26 AM 12/7/2009, Nick Cox wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> More importantly,
>> there could be any number of other interpretations for surprising
>> changes in the series, as for example, that someone is for a short
>> period repeatedly running a do file that installs the latest version of
>> one or more packages.
>> [...]
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