How does this happen?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/19/2015 at 12:15 • Filed to: None

I’m just wondering how—or why—Kinja decided to dredge up this almost two-year-old post and feature it in the sidebar. I’m not complaining, but I’d rather see my latest !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! post over there!

DISCUSSION (19)

Sam > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:23

My guess is that it was linked on some other site and had a huge influx of page views. Maybe YA-9 will be the new Blackbird?

Party-vi > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:24

Kinja works in mysterious ways.

Steve in Manhattan > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:29

I’m always puzzled when someone comments on something I wrote six months ago. Flattered, but puzzled.

ttyymmnn > Sam
11/19/2015 at 12:32

The YA-9 is dead as a coffin nail, but maybe Tyler wrote something and Kinja discovered some hidden connection between the two. Who knows?

Dusty Ventures > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:32

Sidebar is purely reactive. If your old article is there it means a lot of people are reading it right now. The only way to replace it with your new piece is by getting even more people to read that one.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:34

Kinja loves old plane articles, haven’t you heard?

ttyymmnn > Dusty Ventures
11/19/2015 at 12:34

Yeah, I understand all that. It’s just odd that such an old post is being read right now. I wonder if it got linked somewhere outside the Kinjaverse.

ttyymmnn > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/19/2015 at 12:35

I know! I try to feed the beast at least twice a week!

Dusty Ventures > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:36

Probably. That's how the Blackbird keeps resurfacing

ttyymmnn > Dusty Ventures
11/19/2015 at 12:42

It would be interesting to know where it got posted.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:45

And you seem well prepared with the beast’s favorite food...

ttyymmnn > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/19/2015 at 12:48

I try. I should be doing other things, though. My wife is starting to suspect that all I do is sit and write aviation posts all day. Don’t tell her.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:49

As long as you don’t tell mine I’m posting about cars and whiskey all day....

ttyymmnn > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/19/2015 at 12:49

Deal. It’ll be our little secret.

deekster_caddy > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:53

Probably this - I noticed somewhere else on an FP article about flightlopnik or whatever that page was that your name and columns were mentioned, so maybe they have gotten more views lately?

ttyymmnn > deekster_caddy
11/19/2015 at 12:56

Well, Flight Club got the axe, but I don’t think I was ever reposted there. I’ve had a couple of bumps to the FP, and Das sends my work to Oppositeblog. But that’s it. I just read over the article, and now I want to rewrite it. My style has changed a lot in 20 months.

deekster_caddy > ttyymmnn
11/19/2015 at 12:57

No that was it. Somebody commented that your posts could have been bumped to Flight Club. Anyway, that could be generating some traffic...

ttyymmnn > deekster_caddy
11/19/2015 at 12:59

Oh. Well, then, I appreciate the plug. Now that FC is gone.....

E5P3ED > Party-vi
11/19/2015 at 14:01

The way of the Kinja.