Carl Sagan the prophet.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. I think Sagan would take apart your post in short order

Not everyone on DU recommends every thread they agree with. Not every view of a post on DU is by a person - some are by bots for search engines. Views on DU are not unique visitors - click on a thread again, and it increases the view count.

Did you compare the views and recs to threads started at a similar time? If I look at the first page of GD now, I find this thread (106 threads, 1855 views) has the 5th highest ratio of recs to views - and higher than any other thread with more than 30 recs.

You're far too quick to call an entire group of people "overwhelmingly STUPID" just because they haven't reacted exactly the same as you, without comparing the thread against equivalents. Professor Sagan would not approve, I think.