MetaTalk posts tagged with besttime

When should I have posted this question?

piato — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:01:36 -0800

What days and posting-times are best *for particular types of questions*? Searching, I can see lots of threads about maximising eyeballs, but none that I could see about the nature of the eyeballs. Thanks to the people on AskMe who directed me here, and to the correct tags. Recently I posted a thread in which I asked people to help me think of dastardly crimes that supervillains might commit. I was thinking as I posted it that it was a bit of "a friday thread" - and fortunately enough it was Friday at the time. And the results were great! I'm wondering if there's a flipside to that coin - that if I wanted some super-specific bit of technical info about wind turbines, I'd be best off posting it on a Wednesday morning, when the atmosphere is more serious? Or would posting then actually attract a student-and-freelance crowd, who could be asked about college choice and life without medical insurance? I know the hive gives fantastic answers every hours of the week, but I suspect the 'Friday Thread' phenomenon is real, and I'd love to know what similar trends others had found.

Best time to post a question?

flummox — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:39:21 -0800

When is the best time to post to "Ask" in order to have the most looks with the least number of new posts pushing my question off the page? Has anyone figured this out? Is this "cheating"?

When should I ask my question?

royalsong — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:34:33 -0800

When is the best time of the day to post on AskMeFi to maximize the number of people who see my question and might provide a possible answer? When is AskMefi visited the most during the day? When do you like to visit it, if you do? I find that I almost never check the previous day's middle of the night questions and if a lot of questions have been asked and I don't recognize where I left off.. I read about a quarter of the way down the page and then I get distracted by something else and never make it any farther. I figure I'm not the only one. Is there statistics somewhere? I have a question "burning a hole in my pocket" so to speak but I'm worried that I won't get many answers and hope to have as many eyes on it as possible.

"Best" time for AskMeFi post?

InsertNiftyNameHere — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:02:23 -0800

Best time to post AskMeFi question? I'm new here, and have yet to post a question to AskMeFi. I'd like to hear opinions from veterans here if they feel there is a time of day/day of week when I'm more likely to get a lot of answers to any questions I post. I'm not the type to seek attention so that's not the issue. It has more to do with the fact that I'm new here, and I would be greatly disappointed if I asked something and only got a few responses merely because of when I asked the question. I realize there are posters from many time zones so I expect the consensus will be that there is no "better" time than any other, but I was wondering, so I thought I'd ask here first. Many Thanks! PS - This place can sure make me feel dumb! I haven't found one question yet that I felt comfortable answering.

What is the ideal time fo the week to ask a Ask Mefi question to maximixe views and responses.

Sully — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:16:46 -0800

So I've asked a few AskMefi questions now, and have noticed that they tend to get responses for about five hours, give or take, then the responses stop. When is the optimal time during the week to ask my AskMefi question, so that I get the maximum number of eyeballs looking at my question, and thus, get the maximum number of answers. I know that this may not necessarily increase the quality of the answers I get. I am talking about sheer quantity. Thanks!

Optimum posting time?

pseudostrabismus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:04:01 -0800

What are the peak hours of MeFi and AskMe? What's the best time (meaning both time of day and day of the week) to post to this site, if you want your post to get tons of traffic and responses? I'm asking because my last two AskMe questions didn't get as many answers as I hoped they might. Both concern phenomena that most users probably have experience with and hypothetically could have weighed in on, but both posts seem to have rolled to a stop with under 20 responses. The questions were read by a lot of people as they were both favourited quite a few times, but I wonder if I'd have gotten more responses if I'd posted at a different time in the week instead of *cringe* Saturday and Sunday evenings. Thanks!

What's the best time of day to post to AskMe?

Hartster — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:16:22 -0800

What's the best time of day to post to AskMe? I think yesterday showed me that posting early in the morning (US time) the day after a presidential election is probably a bad idea, as my question got shunted off the front page with impressive speed. When's the (rough) sweet spot that gets you plenty of readers without lots of other questions piling on top? [For the purposes of general questions that aren't, say, country specific and would be best answered by, for example, Australians] [And ignoring that, in theory, questions like this could distort what happens if the consenus is 1pm ET and everybody starts posting then]

When should I ask mefi?

rbs — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:24:41 -0800

What is the best time of day (or, even more specifically, day of week and time) to ask metafilter? Are there particular times of day for posting when one is most likely to get more answers? Or more best answers? Do these numbers vary based on category/topic? Has anybody got any data about this? Thanks!

When is the best time to ask?

rbs — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:10:01 -0800

Do we have any data about what the best time of day is to ask an AskMe? Maybe even sliced and diced by tag or geography of respondant? Like, say I had a question about American law, when would be the best time of day (perhaps through some proxy measure like more responses is better, but maybe it could be smarter and be based on favorites or checked answers) to post it? Posts made around 1am Central might not be ideal cause they may slide off the page by mid morning, right? And they may be less interesting to Euros or Asians who are reading. (Sorry, but I don't know how to do a more inside)

Optimizing AskMe

intermod — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:32:40 -0800

When is the best time of day to ask a question on AskMefi and get maximum response / eyeballs? Seems like there's a hundred questions per day lately. In my particular upcoming case it will be about gadgets, if that affects the answer. Has anyone done an analysis of posting rates over the 24 hour day, and which time periods get the most responses?

Best Time For UK AskMe?

brautigan — Sat, 20 May 2006 21:46:50 -0800

When is the best time for a UK mefite to post in Askme for a quick response. I'd assume this would involve establishing the area/timezone the majority of me-fites are in and when they logon / read and respond. Where are you and when do all y'all "check in" or do your posting?

(And should this be an Askme question?!)

Maximizing AskMe

scazza — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:53:23 -0800

Ok, I couldn't find this anywhere but it seems fairly straightforward: When is the best time to post a question to AskMe, when is the questioner most likely to get the most answers? Or, what days/times of the week are the most answers posted to AskMe?