Another Bird

[aggienaut]

So my post yesterday got one of those automatic livejournal comments saying that it was one of the "top-25 of the most popular entries in LiveJournal!"

At that point, four and a half hours after it was posted, it had 13 views, no likes, and no comments ... so how the heck do they calculate their top 25? Or is the non-cyrillic livejournal community so utterly deserted now that just by showing up you can be in the daily top 25?




I rescued another one of these birds today. It was cute how it tried to fly away (eventually, when it fancied it was dry enough, after having been in my hand 15-20 minutes) but was evidently too honey/water lader and/or had lost a bunch of feathers and was unable to fly, and then other birds tried to attack it (which wasn't so cute), but when I got it in my hand again it was calm. I didn't even need to hold it tightly (or even have a finger over the top of it, it could literally have hopped out of my hand) and it didn't squirm or struggle. I think it's cute when a wild animal seems to trust you. (:


EDIT TO ADD: In a delightful irony, this entry just got posted to lj_top15_noncyr, it's apparently in the top 15 itself two hours after posting! With no comments, 8 views, but three likes (thats a heckin good view-to-like ratio, I think when I first looked it somehow had three likes and two views though).

Comments

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Poor birdie.

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

Hello! Your entry got to top-25 of the most popular entries in LiveJournal!
Learn more about LiveJournal Ratings in FAQ (https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=303).

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

I get those automatic LJ comments all the time and I'm just like "LOL sure Jan dot gif". I recently came back to LJ on a whim after being gone for several years.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I get on that list all the time. Sometimes for entries that only have one comment.

[wpadmirer.livejournal.com]

Ah, that little bird looks sweet. I'm glad you helped it.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I'm going to start calling you the "bird whisperer" - LOL

- Erulisse (one L)

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

I hope the bird learned his lesson. Maybe he's a honey addict and can't help himself.

[stasia]

We've mostly moved to Dreamwidth, I think.

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Might be an artifact of Australian time? Your posts are among the very earliest posts that appear on any UTC calendar day? I mean they should be among the most popular! (Also maybe when they appear on a friends-feed, as they do for me, they don't give you the view count, as they don't for mine.)

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Your crazy birds - they want the sweet, but it can (and possibly does) kill them just to get at it. Talk about a sugar addict.

I have always felt the "your journal is top ___" is always a bunch of hooey. The only thing I do pay attention to is how many daily posts I've made in my account, which is more than 4000 at this point.

- Erulisse (one L)