I had a post, "Dog-on-Cat Action" featuring hidden-camera photos of Skypixio, Sheepdog, Tink, Man Talk and Rick Santorum, that got 87,000 views, but I deleted it in a fit of pique a couple of flounces back.

Great idea, Lezlie. I'm gonna put mine here, which might be the best place for all of us to put them - a central location for Kerry and his gang to find them all. I did notice that the top listed was not the most popular. I scrolled down until I found a much more popular one, and there might be others further down, but this is from the first page:


3652 Views
46 Comments

Why Teachers Drink

JULY 26, 2010 10:25PM EDT

By Matt Paust


Here's Chicken Mãâàn's:

2975 Views
19 Comments

Sacrifice - 10 (Feedback)

NOVEMBER 21, 2011 6:55AM EST

By Chicken Mãâàn

Very good idea. But, I agree with Matt that it should be centralized and we should all put it here.
My most viewed, by far, is a strange one. Makes one realize that what we write goes outside the walls of OS.

32 Ratings
12595 Views

59 Comments

The Tig Notaro "Controversy,"
MAY 23, 2011 11:04AM EDT

By fernsy
.

45 Ratings
5048 Views
58 Comments

I Will Remember You
MARCH 2, 2011 5:29PM EST
By Little Kate

I think your total number of views on that one piece is more than my total number of views ever. However, this was my most viewed piece with about 2,400 views.

http://open.salon.com/blog/bernadine_spitzsnogel/2012/04/13/on_mommy_track_choices

It was also an EP.

By far, my August, '10 post RATTED OUT BY MY FOUR-YEAR-OLD, w well over 2700 views...it's abt how my son threatened to call the police when I insidted he go to bed and did, that is, randomly hit 911 and they did show.

r.

I never looked at popularity before. I had no idea that many people were reading my work. I figured most people who read it commented. Guess not.

Now I get why people are worried about EP's and covers.

Oh, we're putting them here?

Open Call: Most Viewed Post
Why We Need the Mosque Near Ground Zero
AUGUST 24, 2010 6:12PM EDT



•Editor’s Pick
•44 Ratings

•7381 Views

•112 Comments

Thanks for teaching me about the Popularity tab. I'd never looked at Views before, only comments and ratings.

Randy Newman Named Sr. Media Adviser for Romney Campaign with:
39 ratings,
1247 views
and 45 comments

Do you know I've never checked that before? Glad but surprised it was this simple little ditty.


102 Ratings
9412 Views
107 Comments

I Now Pronounce You Husband And Wife
MAY 25, 2010 9:14AM EDT

Great idea, Lezlie! And I would agree with the others a centrally located compilation makes best sense.
Mine's modest by comparison with some. It's also my one and only EP.
I doubt I've really contributed all that much in the way of mass appeal to OS, but it isn't for lack of trying at more than one point.


Why January Is My Cruelest Month Editor’s Pick
JANUARY 14, 2011 11:59AM EST
By Poor Woman
32 Ratings
1500 Views
57 Comments

What if we all reposted our most popular posts in the same day, and listed them here? Would that be crazy cool, or what?
Rated

Good idea, Lezlie -- we get a lot of views on posts over here on OS.
Where's Scanner? His have gone really high in views, I remember him mentioning...
jlsathre's bookstore post ought to be on this list too.

This one of mine went a bit viral, none of my others are remotely close to this one -- a story of a strange repetitive nightmare I had as a child:

39 Ratings
430,196 Views
53 Comments

And Then I Entered...the Twilight Zone
OCTOBER 31, 2011 12:48AM EDT
By Just Thinking...

http://open.salon.com/blog/just_thinking/2011/10/29/there_goes_the_i_was_a_princess_in_a_past_life_theory

Why I Think Christian Rock and Heavy Metal are Cynical.

June 19, 2009
12,852 Views
20 Ratings
26 Comments

It wasn't even an EP, and it didn't have that many rates or comments. I have no idea why all those people looked at it.

I've probably had half a dozen others between 5,000 and 10,000.

Just Thinking, wow that's incredible!

Also, I just checked the latest stats on jlsathre's bookstore post, and it is now over half a million views.

My "champion" has been "Real Men! He Men! Pictures! Who's the Manliest of Men". This post was in reality a tribute to my son but has had 43 ratings and 196,442 views.
My "favorite" and "top rated" has been "Why 'Men of a Certain Age' Watch 'Men of a Certain Age'" with 49 ratings and 6,477 views.
And unfortunately, I've had more than a few posts of which I have been incredibly proud but which have "bombed" in terms of ratings and views.

Smart move, Lezlie.
I got almost 111,ooo views on a post about 15 ways to cut back, at the height of the recession. It wasn't a great post, it just caught the viral wave, as some do. (I posted it on Huffpo as well, and can only imagine the views it generated from there, as well. Will never know.)

Most viewed:
"Prophet Manasseh Called Me on My Cell"
May 7, 2012, 2:01 p.m.
5180 views
21 ratings
42 comments
Editor's Pick

Wow on JT and Jl. I'd like to read a post where they describe how their post went viral and how it felt.

There was also the one that Sarah Fister Gale did, Why Rick Santorum Would Have Killed My Daughter, that got over 200,000 views. Kerry Lauerman even wrote a short blog about it.

Geez I am really unpopular huh? Well, my big number is not attached to an EP I managed 25117 hits on a little piece titled "101 Words for Penis".

I had never checked this before. I was surprised by the result:

Two and a Half Stupid Men
APRIL 20, 2010 8:16AM EDT
By Cranky Cuss

60 Ratings
9643 Views
50 Comments

I'm assuming it got so many page views because of the title's reference to the popular TV show (and it wasn't about Charlie Sheen). Though I like the piece, which ridicules boorish behavior by male celebrities, it's not one of the ones I would put in the time capsule.

Thrashing Words Around with Larry at Ye Old Curiosity Shop
11,514

HUGGGGGGGGG let's hope for the best

I don't know if they will really care but it can't hurt.

Editor’s Pick
29 Ratings
4408 Views
46 Comments
R.I.P. Social Activist Howard Zinn
JANUARY 28, 2010 3:14AM EST
By Painting The Stars

http://open.salon.com/blog/painting_the_stars/2010/01/28/rip_social_activist_howard_zinn

My most viewed post dates back to:


March 24, 2010 - The Sick Rose .

•24 Ratings
•18,334 Views
•32 Comments

Rated♥

I've never looked at the popularity tab before and I don't use tags to generate traffic. I did a meaningless post about foot and toe fetishes when I stumbled across some groups on flickr and it has a surprising number of views. I just looked at some phrases I wrote and it's not surprising that search engines picked it up even though it wasn't timely.

Feet and toes, hot or not? (with photos)
JULY 15, 2011 1:34AM EDT
28 Ratings
6115 Views
38 Comments

My "Blowin' in the Wind & Rolling Stones" post was second with 4447.

My "Xanax. Because sometimes life is best when you can't feel it" post came in third with 2854.

According to my numbers the old saying is out of order, it should be "Sex, Rock and Roll and Drugs."

We do drive a lot more traffic here than we realize, I guess it's not enough to make it pay.

Lez: I'm recommending everyone come by here to rate so we can get this post into the "Most Viewed" Feed. As the 4 Hour Feed has disappeared (perhaps for the very final time), it seemed prudent.
Off to spread the word!

Sorry L you can delete above, I choose most popular by mistake instead of most viewed...
http://open.salon.com/blog/ritashibraolcom/2011/06/15/moon_rise_june_2011
39 Ratings
1935 Views
59 Comments

sorry about that..

538,561 views
105 Ratings
130 Comments

25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore
jlsathre

I'm actually a little embarrassed that this keeps showing up, but it's been fun watching the numbers. I wrote a post about it, but never put it up.

My "What Not to Put in Your Vagina" post has supposedly received 13832 views. According to my own records it;'s still getting around 100 page loads a day, mainly from odd places like Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Lithuania, and Ontario (wherever the heck that is). There's apparently a strong interest overseas in posts that involve tapioca.

@Drew-Silla: LOL!

No surprise here either, mine was: Breasts Attract Attention At the CNE.
7,459 views.

http://open.salon.com/blog/scarlett_sumac/2010/08/24/breasts_attract_attention_at_the_cne

cheers

GREAT open call, and I will respond. Also, your writing is so diverse that I can't possibly agree that this is your best (which doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it).

• Hm. Most viewed=• 16 Ratings
• 2857 Views
• 40 Comments

OPEN CALL: Give me Advice on How to Dream, or at least Why
JANUARY 8, 2012 3:31PM EST
By James M. Emmerling


Top rated, u ask?

• • 50 Ratings
• 1347 Views
• 86 Comments

My Best Friend Killed himself by Slitting his Throat.
AUGUST 10, 2011 6:33PM EDT
By James M. Emmerling


Most comments……

Time Period
• • 20 Ratings
• 572 Views
• 107 Comments

HAPPY 7OTH BIRTHDAY, BOB DYLAN
MAY 24, 2011 6:16PM EDT
By James M. Emmerling
………………….

I am pondering the lessons. Thank u

Great idea, Lezlie. Here is mine.

Most viewed: Whole Lotta Love....for Robert Plant on his 62nd Birthday
11,064 views

Leepin' Larry has news I'm sure all of us need to listen up for!
:-/

Hmm. An Editor's Pick called "Quitting Jim" about leaving my first husband. 40 ratings and 41 comments, 1813 views. I actually think I've had one or two more that drew more attention, but I took them down in the hopes that I could get paid for publishing them somewhere else. ;)

Oh man, I'm small potatoes compared to you guys.

Great idea! And next we can all hold our breath until Kerry gives us a cookie!

No wonder management here has no respect for the members.....



Waaaaaaaaaaaaa, boo-hoo lookit how IMPORTANT we are!!

Go change your diapers, kiddies......;-)
.

Wow ... I'm a little embarrassed to include my "most viewed" but truth be told, my posts fly pretty far under the radar, so any views over ONE and any comments at all are still quite inspiring to me ... of the latest:

Post: 2/3/12 "Reaching the Level of My Own Incompetence
Views: 493
Comments: 13

Post: 4/11/12 "I Can't Make You Want Me If You Don't"
Views: 385
Comments: 27

~R~ in solidarity!!

I'm not sure I want to remember that particular post, since it got me in such hot and deep water and cost me some friends.

That said, I'm following Poor Woman's advice and commenting -- and rating here.

71967 Views
33 Comments

Rush Limbaugh Advertisers, Wake Up And Smell The Ashes

AUGUST 7, 2009 9:30PM EDT

By Roger Fallihee

What the hell. Let me give your suggestion a try -- and the post a bump in the process.

OK, what I feared was so turns out not to be. "Life in Newspaper Hell": EP, 29 ratings, 3,255 views, 46 comments. Not bad for someone who tends to fly under the radar and disappears for months at a time....

I had a three-parter on a traumatic romance with a femme fatale. The second, In Over My Head, Tamara part 2, got an EP and had 2,049 views, well below the OS average tops it seems.

Boanerges: just snooping around your page -- were you thinking of your 'most comments' instead of 'most views' ?
Life in Newspaper Hell deserved all those views and I didn't notice any flame-ups in comments...then I went to your 'most comments' list and think I found it...
*sigh*
Glad that particular dustup went by the wayside, although it's just not right for one personal avatar of your own to rate another post/avatar *of your own* just to get another rate.
That's just lame and I've personally quit reading those people entirely.
Oh sorry, L, wrong thread. : )

How do the French and Italians Stay Skinny

4,110 views, 30 ratings, 50 comments

The Grammar dog first???You must be a smart one.

Just to demonstrate the importance (or lack thereof) of page views, I point to Liam O'Donoghue's "Salon Week in Review," currently #3 in the "Most Viewed, Past Day," even though it has only 3 rates and 9 comments.

JT, did I get the instructions wrong? Dang. Have to recheck. Nope, "Life" had the most views.

Anyway, the post to which you refer wasn't one of my more spectacular moments, and I got a good drubbing (as well as some support). And nearly twice as many comments and half as many views as "Life" -- not to mention many more "rates".

Bump.

Editor’s Pick
32 Ratings
38181 Views

28 Comments

War On Food
MAY 3, 2009 6:10PM EDT

By Patrick D Hahn

Boanerges: I was responding to your first comment, before you put up 'Life' --
Meanwhile, Lezlie wonders how anyone can possibly live with JT... and her afterthoughts, asides, and general tangenting.
(did I mention how much OS means to my husband?? : ))

Here's my top whatever list ---


27 Ratings

290266 Views

44 Comments

Typical Lives of Average People Explored -- About you?
JANUARY 2, 2012 2:50AM EST

By Tinkerertink69

A verified number ala Statcounter(the above along with some others I never could find out the true hit...)


17 Ratings

36826 Views

25 Comments

Cute kittens + Tink's usual crazy post = True Confession
JUNE 18, 2009 4:10AM EDT

By Tinkerertink69

@J.T. :D Can you spell c - i - r - c - l - e ?

I am erasing that damned post, Ms. L.
Although way too late as I've noticed you filed that one away carefully in your mind.... : )
(Do you know how amazing it is your care package actually arrived? You are one I pulled it together for -- I have family members who haven't had any arrive in years, even with my good intentions. One friend called to say I'd included scissors in their Christmas package -- the scissors I used to make the package and had been looking for for days...how did they get in there I still wonder??)

Big Bank Reform and the Game of Snooker
Editor’s Pick
17 Ratings
1301 Views
34 Comments

Why the 99% Can’t Win at the Ballot Box
Editor’s Pick
• 23 Ratings
• 4183 Views
• 45 Comments

Lezlie, what a great idea! I commented also with the popularity leader by my real name. I had a lot more posts before I went "underground".

@J.T. : Now I feel even more special than I did when I got it!!!!!!!

Yep, 53,202 views. Put that in your smug writer's pipe and smoke it.

Much more popular when another more, ahem mainstream website recommended it. Problem is, if your readers ain't other OS writers, you don't get comments/ratings. Ed-I-Tor like Honey Badger, she don't care.

19 Ratings
53202 Views
21 Comments

You Are Old, My Employee, The Young Boss Said

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 11:56PM EDT

By another steve s

Giving a bounce back into the feed. :o)

LURED (To The Cult)
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/trilogy/2011/04/21/lured

APRIL 22, 2011 12:06AM EDT
73 Ratings
4136 Views
82 Comments
Editor’s Pick
By trilogy

This makes for a great reading list too.

When Your Child Dies
92 Ratings


3971 Views

136 Comments
and an EP
Great idea!!

For some strange reason, "Fun for the Weekend" is the most viewed on my blogsite. WHich is weired, because it has very little popularity value, but is about someone in the Houston "community" that would rather stay under the radar.
Art James and "who loves you baby" has a better turn of the kindness we see here.

All of us need to be using "links" comments like I am. I have a How to"page".

If you really are too frustrated, please, come to me thru PMs and give me your link and which comment page or post you want it on and I will do it for you.

The page also tells you how to itallic and bold your text.

I know I am asking to be inundated, but it is worth it.

The reason these things are disappearing is the staff that overseas particular issues on that front page are leaving.

For some strange reason,
"Fun for the Weekend"
1 Ratings

1795 Views

0 Comments

is the most viewed on my blogsite. WHich is weird, because it has very little popularity value, but is about someone in the Houston "community" that would rather stay under the radar.
Art James and "who loves you baby"
15 Ratings

1438 Views

27 Comments

has a better turn of the kindness we see here.

All of us need to be using "links" comments like I am. I have a How to"page".

If you really are too frustrated, please, come to me thru PMs and give me your link and which comment page or post you want it on and I will do it for you.

The page also tells you how to itallic and bold your text.

I know I am asking to be inundated, but it is worth it.

The reason these things are disappearing is the staff that overseas particular issues on that front page are leaving.

Vintage Racist Valentines

74 Ratings
14703 Views
108 Comments

25 Ratings
2611 Views
103 Comments

How do I deal with offensive behaviour on OS?

JANUARY 3, 2012 7:44AM EST

By Heidi Banerjee

Matt,I want every one to know that you helped me get this print out as my cursor would not do it in one piece.Thank you

Lezlie,please delete all my other ones on this blog.

For me it was my Hogweed post.
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Actually, I have fixed the page about lin king in comments (L, feel free to erase if you think it is all too much)

How to link in comments

Following up on Lezlie's O. C. - here's mine:

Diana Laughed (A Poem)

http://open.salon.com/blog/toritto/2012/01/07/diana_laughed_-_a_poem

4,455 views but only 6 ratings and 9 comments

Weird eh?

Walking While Black and Suspicious

http://open.salon.com/blog/toritto/2012/03/15/walking_while_black_and_suspicious

55 ratings, 96 comments, 3,557 views and 155 "liked"

"Walking While Black", posted the day after Treyvon Martin was shot here in Florida was an EP but I'm proud to note that my most viewed piece was not. Poems never are

Okay, I'll dive into the pool as well. Hey, I'm at the shallow end, should I be going head first? What the hell, I'm an impulsive lad.

Editor’s Pick
30 Ratings
2169 Views
45 Comments
Killing Me Softly (With This Economy)
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 10:43PM EST
By dunniteowl

AND...

Editor’s Pick
9 Ratings
1363 Views
14 Comments
I Had to Quit Society to Go Crazy (Temporarily)
JULY 27, 2011 2:12PM EDT
By dunniteowl

I'm not a super popular tag maker and I'm hardly topical as far the rest of the 'Net is concerned, but all my views are top shelf, babee!
--r--

A quick note, those were both OC EPs and they were my first two.

Great idea, Lezlie!

good idea!

29 Ratings
3033 Views
39 Comments

Firefighting Paramedics, Thank You for Saving My Life.
http://open.salon.com/blog/maria_heng/2010/06/30/firefighting_paramedics_thank_you_for_saving_my_life

JUNE 30, 2010 3:18PM EDT

By maria heng

Well, Dianne S-L tells me that my most viewed is over 7,000. I have, apparently, no damned idea how to do this and I'm afraid that no amt of tutoring is going to help this addled mind.

A Cradle Catholic's Priests 6819 views

Followed by:

Pumped Up Kicks 3573 views

Nurse Ratched Agent of the Combine 3159 views

(On that one I theorize the hospital in question circulated the piece to the offending parties, plus some, as a cautionary tale.)


Killer Luck 3048 views

Serial killers always rate...

13 Ratings
9175 Views
14 Comments

My Mom was a Navy Nurse in Pearl Harbor

JUNE 14, 2011 6:58AM EDT

By zanelle

Good idea to see the value of OS. However I think there must be other reasons we dont have the four hour feed anymore. It keeps cliques from forming. hmmm? I can't think of any other reasons...

My "Most Viewed" on Open Salon since June 2009 are right here:

Kathy Riordan - Most Viewed/All Time

The top two:

Casting the Movie of Your Life - An Open Casting Call
OCTOBER 14, 2009 1:39PM EDT
By Kathy Riordan
24 Ratings
87130 Views
34 Comments


Apple Confirms Suicide After iPhone Prototype Disappears
JULY 21, 2009 9:50PM EDT
By Kathy Riordan
Editor’s Pick
11 Ratings
49823 Views
14 Comments

Looking Back At Seventeen
47 Ratings
1224 Views
50 Comments

Ugh, how did I miss this? I've been on OS far too sporadically lately. I like this idea of yours - great way to prove a point.

My most-viewed post is "Scary News: Halloween has vanished from Paris" (http://open.salon.com/blog/alysa_salzberg/2011/10/31/scary_news_halloween_has_vanished_from_paris), which is currently at 3588 views, which really surprises me.

Sorry - I've never been good with numbers: 35883 views.

I reposted my 53,000+ views smash hit.

*Sadistic Personality Disorder: someone you know or love?
OCTOBER 22, 2011 5:20AM EDT

16 rates
3,323 views
20 comments

the mentally ill (topic) has a rather strong demographic, either they are reading it, or gadzooks, the ones we are worried about are!