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Offline Dragon

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Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« on: July 15, 2010, 02:27:19 am »
I tend to browse Reddit, and sometimes Digg or SlashDot, and I was thinking that around when CoN is released (or sooner) I could throw up a link to it, and maybe drive some extra traffic this way.  That being said, what would be the best page to link too, and when would be the best time to make the posting?

On a side note, I'm mostly a lurker, I don't tend to submit many posts, so if there is anyone else that plays AI War and also uses some social news sites more frequently, it might be better for them to make the post, as it's not likely to get very many views if I post it....  Speaking from past experience that is....  There is always a chance it could make it to the front page though, which would generate thousands of page views over the span of a day or two, after which they would tend to die out....

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Re: Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2010, 02:31:11 am »
Many thanks!  We'll have up a CoN page on the sidebar of the main site by the time it goes on preorder.  I'd suggest that as the time for something like what you're describing, if that works for you.  We've actually been on the front page of reddit three times, and on the front page of the gaming section a few more times than that.  There's at least one guy over there who also brings up AI War in seemingly any conversation where there's strategy games or space games being discussed, heh.  Your assessment of the traffic from a front page posting is largely correct.  Having also been slashdotted a couple of times, these days the effect from slashdot and reddit's front page seem about identical.  How the mighty have fallen... ;)
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Re: Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2010, 12:26:45 pm »
Heh, most of why I made this posting was because I did a search for "ai war" on reddit and it returned nothing.....

That's cool that there are others out there though. :-)

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Re: Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2010, 12:28:11 pm »
Very odd that it came back with nothing.  Via google site search, you can see what was there, if you're curious: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uwR&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=site%3Areddit.com+%22ai+war%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
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Re: Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2010, 10:58:12 pm »
As usual google search is better than most internal domain searches.

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Re: Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2010, 02:35:22 am »
Heh, yeah, seems that way.  I'm going to have to remember that for next time.....

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Re: Social News, AI War, and so forth...
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2010, 10:15:08 am »
For sure.
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