One More Thing I Want to Say Today
I'd ask the fox guarding the hen house, but then I'd still have doubts about its answer.
A number of times the Substack post stats utility shows that numerous Grundvilk readers clicked on the post ‘subscribe button’ while reading some of my stuff, yet none of these clicks has resulted in the addition of new subscribers to the substack .
After yesterday’s short post (re: Humanity in IBM and Apple World), for example, 80 readers hit the subscribe button and yet Grundvilk gained no new subscribers at all as a result of this click activity. Ditto (to a lesser extent) regarding the ‘comment’ button.
It almost makes me think that Substack is throttling Grundvilk subscriber growth and reader activity as a means of indirectly conducting a little sub rosa subject matter censorship.
On the other hand, what I’ve observed might just be an entirely random, innocuous Substack software glitch.
In any case, sometime scientist that I am, I’m now contemplating imitating William Kunstler’s1 example and posting the same written work simultaneously on Substack and on an entirely independent and separate blog to compare how reader subscriber growth behaves in the two independent cases.
I really wonder what Kunstler is seeing regarding new subscriber behavior in his ongoing (unintentional??) experimental set up. Readers can subscribe to his stuff at both his old blog website and at his relatively new Substack, so a direct comparison of apparent new reader behavior is already possible for him.
I'm already subscribed, but I'm interested in your question. Twice I have tried to subscribe to other Substacks but hitting the subscribe button repeatedly had no result. Could indeed be a system bug.