by Phizzy 66 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Of greater interest - and surely to the Witnesses in particular is this question:
How many specific requests are made by visitors to their website for Bible Studies with the Witnesses?
Have they ever published an answer to that question? And if not, why not? Perhaps it is not on the impressive side - and the organization is hoping the "worldwide" campaign will change that.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
That would be the more meaningful statistic surely than total "unique" hits.
@steve in 2013 about 49,000 people requested a bible study through JW.ORG. This year that number is expected to be higher
Unique requests for a bible study might not even be a really useful number. They've not got a captcha on the request form, and I'm sure there's a few "requests" from appostates that aren't genuine. You'd have to filter those out first.
Actually, now that I think about it, the lack of a captcha could be taken advantage of if anyone wanted to make the "request a bible study" feature essentially useless to them. All someone would have to do is write a script that submits tons of requests. Ideally, with unique legitimate addresses (doesn't have to be residential...just something that'll come up on google maps) and names, etc so that they would have no way of filtering out the genuine requests. They'd then have a choice on their hands, either treat them all as legitimate and have people in the local congregations follow up on every one, or throw them all out. Either way, there'd probably be a useful effect. If folks in the congregations keep getting a request to follow up from "mother" and they're always BS, they'll probably stop following up. At the very least, they'll be forced to acknowledge that the org isn't as innovative and efficiently organized as they once thought.
If they throw out all the requests, then at least it might prevent a few people from getting sucked into the cult.
the lack of a captcha could be taken advantage of if anyone wanted to make the "request a bible study" feature essentially useless to them.
I'm kind of shocked that no one has thought of this until now.
I'm less surprised that the MacArthur geniuses at WT-IT never thought to add it.
Yes!! The JW.Org site will definitely make a difference in the lives of JW youth according to this survey:
"The Web has been exploited by all manner of unscrupulous individuals. Many Web sites feature explicit sex, and these are easy for the unwary to stumble upon. In the United States, for example, 90 percent of youths surveyed between the ages of 8 and 16 said that they had unintentionally encountered pornography online—in most cases while doing homework!" (Awake 10/8/2003 pg 5)
The bottom line is that JW youth are poised to become porn addicts early in life!
Thank you 'Mother'!!
Unique requests for a bible study might not even be a really useful number. They've not got a captcha on the request form, and I'm sure there's a few "requests" from appostates that aren't genuine. You'd have to filter those out first.
So lets get to it all you IT guys and make 1000s of requests for bible studdies useing a bot. It is an easy fix so come on and have some fun before they fix it.
I wonder if any people are trying to hack the JW.org site?
