A poll about you and LSB

by Adam J. Morris on Apr 27, 2009 10:30 AM CDT Comment 49 comments

I had a discussion with one of the tech guys with SBN yesterday that gave me some interesting info I didn't have in terms of how some of the data -- particularly related to average visit time -- is calculated, and that revealed to me some of the inherent limitations in the tools we have to calculate how users use LSB.

So I've put together the poll below, that I'd like for folks to participate in so we can get a better handle on the user experience here. Hopefully, the options make sense -- if they aren't clear, please tell me in the comments.

Thanks.

Poll

Which best describes how much you visit the LSB site?

I regularly open up a browser window, go to LSB, read some stuff at LSB, and then close it when I'm done

162 votes

I regularly surf over to LSB on an already open browser window, read some stuff at LSB, and then surf away to another site when I'm done on the same browser window

463 votes

I almost always have LSB pulled up on one of my browser windows -- if my computer is on, one of my windows probably has LSB open on it

140 votes

I usually only come to LSB when I'm sent here by a Google search, an email, or some other site's linkage, and thus am not here regularly

3 votes

I usually only come to LSB when I'm looking for a specific story or piece of information, and thus am not here regularly

9 votes

Other

17 votes

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I have it...

as one of my 3 home tabs so it always opens when I open IE. And it usually is up the whole time I am online.

Call 1-800-DOCTORB. The B is for bargain!

by Panorama on Apr 27, 2009 10:34 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep

by tyd3311 on Apr 27, 2009 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Same here

These umps are a bunch of bow-legged uncle fuckers.-D.A.Tron
http://tinyurl.com/ranger-rage

by boomer1 on Apr 27, 2009 10:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

same here pretty much

one of my tabs is usually lsb when im on the computer

by dustinvandeman on Apr 27, 2009 11:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

same

cept Firefox since IE is meh

by Mike E on Apr 27, 2009 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I answered 3

But I’m kind of a hybrid between 2 and 3. If there isn’t a game going on, or a busy thread being updated regularly (like a minors thread) I’ll hit LSB, leave, and then check back in regularly. Like many, many times a day if I’m not staying.

But during a game or during any kind of busy discussion I leave it up in a tab.

by jthig32 on Apr 27, 2009 10:40 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

yeah

I almost always have LSB open on a tab.

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Apr 27, 2009 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tabs

Is a tab considered an individual window?

by gr7070 on Apr 27, 2009 12:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would think so

it’s just a different way of displaying a window

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Apr 27, 2009 12:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd think so, too.

I answered 3 based on the assumption that a tab counted as a window.

by JBP on Apr 27, 2009 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is what I do

by TRanger on Apr 27, 2009 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I answered 2

but I am also a hybrid between 2 and 3. So I think it balances.

4/10/09 - Josh Hamilton's last walk.

by DJCahill on Apr 27, 2009 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

and sometimes

for no explainable reasons, I have multiple LSB windows open, and open another one rather than tab to an existing one.

4/10/09 - Josh Hamilton's last walk.

by DJCahill on Apr 27, 2009 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I often have more than one LSB window open

Sometimes it’s so I can read a story/diary without leaving the main page and other times I’m working on a comment/diary and need to research LSB comments/stories/diaries first.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

by WyoRanger on Apr 27, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I answered 3

But I’m also a hybrid of 2 and 3. I usually check the site 2-3 times during the day, and at least that many each evening. LSB is definitely one of the sites I visit the most.

"I dont care to debate with a troll." - Sharky

by RCCook on Apr 27, 2009 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ditto

I am somewhere between choice 2 and 3. If I’m at work it’s usually 3.

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Apr 27, 2009 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

bingo

Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
Dykstra has all the money!
ElectricOkra.com

by WhipSmart on Apr 27, 2009 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You can prolly add one more category!

I use LSB as my default site when I open up my browser and then navigate away to other sites.

by DCRanger on Apr 27, 2009 10:50 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Odd questions

Would opening a bunch of internal stories into new tabs count as the first choice?

by rcreative on Apr 27, 2009 10:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I check in here a few times a day....

and stay here from an hour before a game…….all the way until about 30 minutes after a game. So that could be a period of up to almost 5 hours straight……which could count as just leaving a window open, i guess.

Ian Kinsler..... yea, he's good at baseball.

by bspate on Apr 27, 2009 11:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Do you have to be registered to vote?

If so, then you aren’t going to get many votes for the last couple of options. The poll will skew to the people who are registered and post, and won’t be representative of the full spectrum of users.

by bhudson on Apr 27, 2009 11:28 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

No, you don't.

Go Rangers...don't suck...

by Kinslerhomer on Apr 27, 2009 11:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

nope

Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.

by knockoutking on Apr 27, 2009 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

As a Firefox user...

…I use an extension called Morning Coffee, which tracks daily routine sites and opens them in tabs whenever you launch the browser. My Morning Coffee launches six tabs: Rock M Nation, Google Reader, Facebook, HS GameTime, ESPN and LoneStarBall.

So, I’m pretty much on it all day.

Seeking a new signature...

by ghtd36 on Apr 27, 2009 11:29 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Here's a more appropriate poll for most of us

Are you on LSB site:
- Too much?
- Way too much?
- So much you hit the “c” or “z” keys on every other site?
- so much you bitch about every other site not having threaded comment replies?
- so much you’ve been threatened with divorce and/or unemployment?
- so much you sign your work emails with your LSB username?
- so much you haven’t actually slept in several days?

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Apr 27, 2009 11:46 AM CDT reply actions 4 recs

I have found myself hitting z on other site before

The greatest thing about 2.0 is how easy it is to scroll through posts. I wish everyone had that.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw

by Gdawg on Apr 27, 2009 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So true on the C and Z things.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

You want the mustache on or off? ... ... ... Too bad.

by thedirkatron on Apr 27, 2009 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

X.

All of the above.

"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008

by Rodney on Apr 27, 2009 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

For me...

-so much I have a constant fear of my work deciding to block access to LSB

by Inkara1 on Apr 27, 2009 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have definitely hit "z" elsewhere on the tubes.

lol

And That Happened: Sports with a Hint of Sarcasm

by philkid3 on Apr 27, 2009 1:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Signing my work emails with my LSB username

Guilty.

I'm Matt mutha-effing Bush, bitches, and mutha-eff East County.

"I'm as passionate and knowlegeable as any fan out there." Josey Wales

by Brian Thomas on Apr 27, 2009 2:18 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

If we use tabs (rather than new windows) and almost always have LSB open in one of those tabs, how should we answer?

The 40 Trumps All!!!

You want the mustache on or off? ... ... ... Too bad.

by thedirkatron on Apr 27, 2009 12:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

3rd one

by Mike E on Apr 27, 2009 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

When I'm reading multiple Ranger stories

I usually have several tabs open to browse through LSB front-page stories/comments, as well as FanPosts and FanShots. If I only see one new story (on a second or third trip to the site, for instance), then I browse in just one tab.

I use the iGoogle homepage (I hate the stupid iWhatever phenomenon) so I don’t have to manage my bookmarks/RSS feeds between multiple computers, and have an LSB feed embedded there. I usually read story headlines from my other feeds and then browse here to check FanPost/FanShot comments and look for updates on Beyond the Box Score, Driveline Mechanics, or Defending Big D.

by jwiscarson on Apr 27, 2009 12:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Other

I have my RSS reader always open in one tab, and occasionally go to LSB to comment.

See above.

Every time Tim Duncan whines, an angel gets its wings.

by MeanMr.Mustard on Apr 27, 2009 12:34 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I clicked on almost always

Because it’s closest to the reality. LSB is not an automatic opener, but is fourth on the list of sites I tab open daily. Once open, I return to it fairly regularly to "keep up’. I also LSB as a launch center for other links of interest, both within posts and articles, and the static links to other AL West sites. Then return to LSB. There are times I close the LSB tab (and a couple of others) to isolate work on either my website or support for NMLR, and there are times I kill the browser totally to clean up my system. So I am on LSB daily except when gone from my apartment or traveling, and the window is usually an active tab but subject to being displaced when I need to isolate desktop resources.

Heh, and yes I’ve hit the ‘z’ key on other sites.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Apr 27, 2009 12:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

And I have definitely signed an e-mail "ghtd36".

Seeking a new signature...

by ghtd36 on Apr 27, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

my wife calls me

t ball now and then, usually derisively. She’s threatened to log on as me and make a bunch of nonsense posts, to which I reply, “no one would notice a difference.”

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Apr 27, 2009 1:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Comment Threads...

Are great on SB nation. I was just commenting on that today actually to my yankee fan buddy who posts on the LoHud site. Just not the same. It feels so 2007.

Rocky Mountain Ranger

by Strangers on Apr 27, 2009 1:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs