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from webmaster, Tue 28th Jan, 11:53am

A rowing website popularity poll. Apparently by following the link you vote for ours - might be fun for a week or two. Their rules say maximum votes allowed are one per day each.

by Dubya - Tue 28th Jan 2003, 6:49pm

We're presently 16th!

by Mike - Wed 29th Jan 2003, 3:48pm

Dubya said: We're presently 16th!

We're now second, given that they've reset the votes. A couple more clicks and we're first...

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by Dubya - Wed 5th Feb 2003, 9:59pm
mjb said: Still holding on. Need a push, methinks. And we're out in front again! 5 clicks ahead!

by Dubya - Fri 7th Feb 2003, 11:09am
Keep voting

by Simon - Fri 7th Feb 2003, 11:11am
Have you seen the photo for the Virus site (in 4th place a few moments ago)... is that Andy Pickard?

by Dubya - Sun 9th Feb 2003, 10:06am
Now 118 to 110...

by mjb - Sun 9th Feb 2003, 11:17am
Now we just need our Webmaster to put a top 100 voting link on the front page somewhere ...

by not for me to decide - Sun 9th Feb 2003, 2:29pm
Personally I didn't think folks would like it - but I'm sure we could do if people wanted to.... Anyone feel we should / shouldn't?

by jpd - Sun 9th Feb 2003, 3:32pm
I don't think we should - it would just cheapen the site.

by dw - Sun 9th Feb 2003, 7:40pm
Yeah...firstandthird.org is pure class at the moment - why plebify it? :)

by Dubya - Sun 9th Feb 2003, 9:18pm
It doesn't have to be a big link, just a little one hidden away somewhere on the front page (on the text "100" in the bottom right corner or something) to save those of us in the know the trouble of clicking through to find the link...

by Martin - Mon 10th Feb 2003, 12:58pm
That is my suggestion of something unobtrusive. Can easily go if it doesn't fit the bill!

by Guy - Mon 10th Feb 2003, 4:30pm
What is the point is of artificially raising the website up somebody's ranking? Ok, so it was a good challenge for a week, but moving the link to the front page indicates it's more permanent than that. There's really not much here to interest anybody from outside the club is there?

by Martin - Mon 10th Feb 2003, 5:02pm
hmmmmmmm. Why do we have a website? My view is that as well as being of service to members it should aim to raise the profile of Cambridge college rowing - and our boatclub in particular. For example, it could help to attract to Trinity people who are serious about wanting to try rowing or those who have rowed at school and are looking around at the various college clubs, or maybe even new people who would be interested in coaching. With the string of good results displayed on our front page at the moment it is a particularly good time to encourage people from elsewhere to visit! Whilst people are enjoying having ourselves at the top of the list it seems to make sense having it easy to get at...

by gf - Mon 10th Feb 2003, 6:28pm
Martin said: hmmmmmmm. For example, it could help to attract to Trinity people who are serious about wanting to try rowing or those who have rowed at school and are looking around at the various college clubs, or maybe even new people who would be interested in coaching. Indeed. The THBC website (do they even have one nowadays?) was, back when their successful days were not such ancient history, little more than a recruiting tool. Can't hurt to advertise a little to candidates for whom rowing will be a factor in choice of college.

by Martin - Mon 10th Feb 2003, 10:42pm
One can't help but think that a rolling system of discarding votes would be rather more sensible than throwing out everything completely once a week! :-( Last I looked 'last week' we had 143 votes - very good work ;-)

by Dubya - Tue 11th Feb 2003, 10:29am
gf said: Indeed. The THBC website (do they even have one nowadays?) was, back when their successful days were not such ancient history, little more than a recruiting tool. Given the current state of affairs, it can't really have worked very well, can it!? I suspect the best way of recruiting is to generate lots of oarsmen who are so keen they go get jobs coaching rowing at schools or join rowing clubs with big juniors programs, and convince them all that Trinity is the place to be......

by Dubya - Wed 12th Feb 2003, 10:17am
Falling behind... help!

by Simon - Thu 13th Feb 2003, 1:29pm
So has this little campaign had any effect on the number of people visiting the site?

by Dubya - Fri 14th Feb 2003, 12:16am
Simon said: So has this little campaign had any effect on the number of people visiting the site? I think it probably has increased the number of visitors. If you look at the number of page views coming from there, there are over 1200 additional hits in the last month, which is quite a few... and if you look at the last 2 weeks traffic, it is considerably more than at any point last term or earlier in this term. Of course that might be correlated to recent results... or not!

by Dubya - Mon 17th Feb 2003, 2:14pm
Gap shrinking, please remember to vote

by Simon - Tue 18th Feb 2003, 10:20am
In 6th!!!!! Vote

by mjb - Tue 18th Feb 2003, 10:02pm
back in front ... just

by mjb - Wed 19th Feb 2003, 8:53am
down to second ... VOTE !

by Dubya - Tue 25th Feb 2003, 11:13am
New week ... time to vote!

by Dubya - Fri 28th Feb 2003, 11:45am
Please click through this link

by mjb - Sun 2nd Mar 2003, 8:37pm
down to fifth - start that clicking again !

by Simon - Tue 4th Mar 2003, 10:27am
A new week just begun...

by mjb - Tue 4th Mar 2003, 10:46am
indeed

by Dubya - Tue 11th Mar 2003, 10:06am
restart!!

by sarah - Fri 14th Jan 2005, 1:29pm
nice to see that someone is keeping this going! just went to this from another site (coxie.com) and found FaT at the top of the list :)

by Martin - Fri 14th Jan 2005, 3:56pm
Yes, a dedicated team are doing lots of regular clicking!