+1 on Debbie showing a consistant and genuine interest in this community.

Debbie, I too believe it is more of an acknowledgement than action being what was lacking. Thanks for all you do. And I'm sure it is a LOT that we know nothing of.

 

Let me add that I think Debbie has done more for the LJ community than anyone else, period. That she shows concern about these sorts of criticisms and responds with assurances that the team does care says tons about her genuine commitment to us.

We all owe Debbie a huge dept of gratitude for her work on our behalf, and I just hope Martin is paying you well… dammit. ;-)

 

She's even said nice things about me, that doesn't happen very often

 

These high view counts are probably coming from search engines picking up on a word or 2 in the narrative.

 

Topa, I think you are right. so from now on we need to insert the following search "tags" on all our projects:

• sex

• drugs

• rock&roll

From here on out we will ALL make "Daily Top 3" Status!

 

I hesitated saying that knowing everyone would put sex in their narratives from now on ;-)

 

Glad to be of service John C.

 

I say let it lie.
A great site. Free. Great information. What more could you want?

 

Just to grab an arbitrary day, Oct 7 has 6 top 3. Is that doubling down the honors? ;-))

 

Yup, there is suspicious activity going on. Don't want go into details. I will adjust the project score calculation shortly to make it more objective soon.

 

I could really care less about the top three. I use this site to get inspiration and information. *Thank you Martin for providing an easy source to obtain both! *

 

Topa: "...I hesitated saying that knowing everyone would put sex in their narratives from now on ;-)..."

And here I was worrying if coffee was a drug!

;-)

 

(no plan box) over 5000 views in 13 hrs….what gives with that??? I can't believe there were that many people on here in that length of time…Go figure…..

 

BTW, just figured out how one can jack up they're rating on the projects.

If you log out of your lumberjocks account, and go to your project, you can just constantly press F5 (or the refresh button in the browswer). It will register ever single refresh as a hit. It doesn't work if you are logged into your lumberjocks account.

Most software for websites can limit views based on IP address, so if multiple hits come from one ip address, it counts as 1 hit. Either the software lumberjocks uses doesn't have that feature, or it's turned off.

Go ahead, give a try, and enjoy being in the top 3!

 

We did that yesterday with chuckV's "vewbooster2000". He was in the Top 3 within 5 minutes.

 

Oh, crap, sorry. Didn't read through all the new posts.

 

no plan box over 5000 views in 13 hrs….what gives with that?

Lots of guys wondering how to make a box without a plan ;-))

 

So somehow my Simple Broom Rack project made it to the top 3 today. It has 1 comment but 13,800 views (yeah right).

It sure as heck isn't from me logging out and refreshing the page…

Edit: Haha I just realized that my title has "rack" in it. Search engine spiders sniffing out a particular type of website (that dominates the internet)!

 

Between the dog bowls and the broom rack in the top four as of 3:00PM EST, 10/10/12, I am about to officially give up posting projects.
No offense to these fine projects, but when a three piece wooden dog bowl holder beats out other projects by 35,000 votes, daily top 3 is offically worthless.

 

Keep the faith Paul, Martin (see above) said they are looking into tweaking this to make it more secure. We'll see…

 

So Paul, I shouldn't post my hand dovetailed laminated maple and walnut dog bowl tray when it's completed? Or are you saying I should get my butt in gear and post it pre-fix?

 

Joe, I think he's saying you can post it, just don't use any of the following words to describe it : sex, drugs, rack, boob, doggie, or wood.

 

Nah, post away whenever you are ready, Joe. I was just ranting a little. Hopefully Martin already knows what is happening and will have it fixed shortly. By the way, Rex gathered up way more votes than that for his broom rack. Take a look. He even apologized since he doesn't have a clue why.

And I bet your hand-dovetailed laminated maple and walnut dog bowl tray is meant to only hold the finest cuts of meat for the most discriminating canines! Will it include inlays?

 

I just did my first, albeit simple inlay on some table legs I am making. I hope to be done with that project this weekend. It's coming together REALLY well so far and I love it. That means I will manage to screw it up so bad during final assembly it will become a garage fixture to hold sand paper.

I am considering inlaying a great dane in the sides using contrasting woods through the stripes. Since the sides are laminated with mostly maple and some walnut strips, the "dog inlay" will be maple where there is walnut and walnut where there is maple. Pretty ambitious for me though.

 

here is a really good example
of the process

one board three dowels
#1

A Simple Broom Rack

7 hours ago by Rex Bair

51,827 views | 2 comments

(no offense to the poster
it just shows the way the projects are skewed
in the top 3 category