How many page views can get a blank page in CAF? 600!!

[Ferran Delgado]

When I got what I consider my grail by 2007, the NM #21 cover, I used a couple of blank pages to spotlight it in my featured pieces.

 

The funny thing came when I found out that people kept hitting the blank pages just to discover that they were that, blank images.

 

I didn't know what to do, if remove them or not, and I felt bad about how probably people felt when clicking a blank page. But some of them took it with humor, and posted funny comments, so I think that I'll keep it.

 

This is the blank page with almost 600 hits and four funny comments:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=345380&GSub=33106

 

And this is my CAF gallery so you can see why I did it...

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=16737

 

Ferran

[alxjhnsn]

My suggestion (not that you asked) is to put the arrows on the blank page.

 

This reminds me of when I worked at a NASA contractor from '78 to '81. We didn't have word processors, Sharepoint, or PDF files so manuals were updated manually. When we shortened a section, we inserted pages that read (in big letters) "this page intentionally left blank." it always bothered me because they clearly were not blank.

 

Congrats on the cover by the way.

[Ferran Delgado]

Thanks!

 

Mmm... Your suggestion could work, I'll do it...

[alxjhnsn]

Free advice is worth what you pay for it.

[Terry Doyle]

Maybe the 600 viewers were fans of Modern Art and thought it was a new concept - whereby you apply your imagination to the blank canvas?

 

It's a wonder you haven't been innundated with offers???

[Ferran Delgado]

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Maybe they thought it was MK in a snow storm... ;-)

[Ferran Delgado]

Right now the page has more than 1000 hits, 8 comments, and it's #1 in The Most Viewed Comic Art on ComicArtFans.com!! !!

http://www.comicartfans.com/MostViews.asp

[Terry Doyle]

Right now the page has more than 1000 hits, 8 comments, and it's #1 in The Most Viewed Comic Art on ComicArtFans.com!! !!

http://www.comicartfans.com/MostViews.asp

 

It's true, you can fool most of the people most of the time!

[blowout]

Right now the page has more than 1000 hits, 8 comments, and it's #1 in The Most Viewed Comic Art on ComicArtFans.com!! !!

http://www.comicartfans.com/MostViews.asp

 

This really does show up how easily the CAF view counts can be manipulated, and how utterly meaningless they are.

[Ferran Delgado]

The curious thing is that the blank page incremented in more than 400 hits since I opened this thread, in spite that the thread itself has less than 200, so it probably means that many people couldn't resist to click it in the CAF's most viewed and commented pages. How strong is curiosity...