Debunking False/Misleading Statements Made or Told to the High Court
Last year: The Truth is About to Prevail
A couple of days ago I heard many technical falsehoods (basically lies) told by a nontechnical person, who tried to hurt me and my wife by twisting and misrepresenting numbers.
I'd like to quickly set the record straight, and not for the first time:
- This site has a huge number of pages. Yesterday it served 528,786 requests, but those are spread throughout more than 528,786 files (going as far back as 2006).
- A file request isn't a page request; not every file is a page and most files are images, documents etc. So the term "hits" or "request" should not be equated with "read", just like "impressions" in social control media may simply mean someone scrolled past it (most won't even see/read while scrolling fast). False metrics help nobody, except some people's ego or a nefarious intent.
- About half of the Web's requests are from bots, based on a survey we linked to or referenced in yesterday's Daily Links (bots don't read, they scan, analyse, and sometimes do neither).
- Many of the readers of this site are recurring visits from Really Simple Syndication (RSS), not necessarily unique or plenty. We're not in social control media and we don't aim to go "viral", we speak to people who can relate to the issues that matter to us. Even if there are not many such people (it is a small niche), they do read us closely and read us a lot because they trust us and we are hyper-productive (despite malicious efforts to grind us down).
People who try to cheat the system by gaslighting judges will end up discrediting themselves. █