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Globe Pet Peeve du Jour (with poll)

March 9, 2008 By shack

This morning I finally sent a message to the Globe pointing out that there is no way that this article is popular enough to stay in the top five most e-mailed articles for this period of time.  Leaving it in the list undermines the trustworthiness of the Boston.com website’s “most e-mailed” feature.  I suggested that they repair the glitch that causes this item to stay on the list, or include an explanation of how some hacker is using spam technology to artificially keep the article on the list for so many months.  

I feel better now, but has anyone else been irritated by this?

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  1. hrs-kevin says

    March 9, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Most people won’t want to give the globe their e-mail address in order to e-mail an article to a friend, they will just mail a link. Perhaps this was the only article e-mailed through their website.

  2. goldsteingonewild says

    March 9, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Actually, I’m dorky enough that I’d wondered the EXACT same thing.  

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    p>And I think your explanation is probably dead on — the vendor is massively re-emailing the story.  

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    p>You’re the canary in the coal mine.  I wonder if Boston.com folks read this blog.  

    • political-inaction says

      March 10, 2008 at 10:44 am

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