E: 02/08 That Dang Humming Bird Is Back Again

Zanderman · 27 July 2020 at 7:00PM

prowla said:

Zanderman said:

whotourloz said:

Not one of those links had a bird on for me - is there something I'm doing wrong? I've done the link thing that was suggested early on in the thread.

Don't think it's just you!
The daily clue ones (that pjran is posting very early in the morning) are working for me - but no others that have been posted here have worked for me for many days now.
Not sure why, but maybe TCB have changed how they work to limit the passing on of links.
Except for the daily clue ones which, by definition, are open to all all day.

The random items are supposed to be random, so just because one person got a hit on one link it doesn't anybody else will; of course, if 100 people try the link someone has posted, then there's a fair chance that one of them might also get one.

Agree they are supposed to be random - and presumably one-offs - but the point being made is that, up until a few days ago, a significant proportion of the links posted DID generate a hit for someone else. This phenomenon is the only reason for anyone to post their successful links - and it implies the hits were not entirely random. Otherwise what would be the point of posting any - we might as well just go and find ourselves a random page on TCB by ourselves, no need to follow someone else's.

But in recent days this phenomenon - for at least me and a couple of others positing above - seems to have stopped. So either we were very lucky before, gaining hits from links that were hits for someone else just before (sometimes only minutes before)us, or those links were generating hits multiple times so the system wasn't quite so random. But has since changed. That's all. It may just be an illusion and all coincidental though!

whotourloz · 27 July 2020 at 7:04PM

Zanderman said:

prowla said:

Zanderman said:

whotourloz said:

Not one of those links had a bird on for me - is there something I'm doing wrong? I've done the link thing that was suggested early on in the thread.

Don't think it's just you!
The daily clue ones (that pjran is posting very early in the morning) are working for me - but no others that have been posted here have worked for me for many days now.
Not sure why, but maybe TCB have changed how they work to limit the passing on of links.
Except for the daily clue ones which, by definition, are open to all all day.

The random items are supposed to be random, so just because one person got a hit on one link it doesn't anybody else will; of course, if 100 people try the link someone has posted, then there's a fair chance that one of them might also get one.

Agree they are supposed to be random - and presumably one-offs - but the point being made is that, up until a few days ago, a significant proportion of the links posted DID generate a hit for someone else. This phenomenon is the only reason for anyone to post their successful links - and it implies the hits were not entirely random. Otherwise what would be the point of posting any - we might as well just go and find ourselves a random page on TCB by ourselves, no need to follow someone else's.

But in recent days this phenomenon - for at least me and a couple of others positing above - seems to have stopped. So either we were very lucky before, gaining hits from links that were hits for someone else just before (sometimes only minutes before)us, or those links were generating hits multiple times so the system wasn't quite so random. But has since changed. That's all. It may just be an illusion and all coincidental though!

Agreed, the links posted I've had nothing from - it seems totally randomly generated but almost like TCB are limiting the number of hits. Weird how it's changed, and when I do get a hit, its an 'oops' box and then the bird is gone.