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    ok we say that there is alot alot of members ok one questiojn thats been asked alot is why they dont post and my question iswhy do you only see like 2-3 people on at once??!!

  • #2
    Now there's a question.... The site is dying a slow death perhaps??

    I knew years ago I shouldn't have bothered with this Shaolin stuff. Should have just went porn and made millions.

    LOL,
    doc
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    • #3
      LOL

      ya proaly but you also have to stop and think of the people you helped i mean you have to have some kinda gratification ut of it i know its helped ALLOOTT!

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      • #4
        Well, I've spent a lot of time on this site, (and money, but we won't talk about that), and I've interacted with far more people via email than what is known on the site. It has been nice; I've made arrangements for quite a few to get to China and train in Shaolin with the monks, experiences, which, no doubt, has changed their lives. I know it has changed mine. And god knows this site has changed mine too, and, me. I do derive a certain amount of satisfaction from all that this site has done in the past few years, which is the reason why I have continued to do it, as the site does not generate money, but bleeds it. And, I've derived a certain amount of pain too. The television specials that I've been involved with most definitely have not worked in my favor, despite all the time and effort I put into them to ensure their success. But, that's life man. You get the good with the bad. You just have to learn to deal with that.

        Xanthic, you have to realize something. I realize that you're young, but you'll eventually figure this out. Things change. Always. Some things change for the better, some for the worse. And, I'll guarantee you, that things don't always work out the way that you want them to. In fact, at least it's been my experience these past few years, that nothing works out the way you want it to. But, these are things that we really shouldn't be bothered by, because it's these very same unexpected disasters and occurrences that make our lives the wonderful things that they are. They make us learn, they make us stronger, they make us better people. And, we grow. And if we don't grow, we die.

        The web site has grown too. Tremendously, in fact. Over the past few months, I've put a lot of time and effort into expanding and improving the services that this site can offer the community. I'm in the process of rewriting the entire thing so that its better written and more easy to navigate (though, sometimes I question if it's really worth the effort). The site has helped many, many people in the past, and we've had lots of visitors, in fact, thousands upon thousands a day.

        But, not anymore. And I assure you, when the PBS special comes out, and my character has been effectively and irretrievably assassinated, there will be less (the hate mail section will indubitably be pretty impressive). I'm not sure where the site is going to go at this time. I'm not sure how much time and effort I'm going to put into it in the future. It gets to the point where the rewards are far outweighed by the headaches. There comes a point when we all have to move on.

        doc
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        • #5
          Well I for one, do not watch TV, much less pbs.
          Also, I get this strange idea that maybe just maybe Doc is a human being, and not a character. Therefore I couldnt honestly care less about what some inept probono-grade journalists say about a character they invented for the purpose of their broadcast. Always remember who you are and who you aren't.
          Good work so far man, I discovered this site after getting a video of a monk doing a staff form off kazaa and I was pleasantly impressed my the amount of information stowed away in your archives.
          The masses are fickle, don't worry about them. Do what is truly in your own best interest and you will find your actions to be in the best interests of all who are involved.

          Oh and if you're still getting headaches, drink some more water. I was always befuddled by the silliness of the common treatment for headaches in this country. 1 glass of water, 1 assorted painkiller. Really all you need is the water.

          Freedom from desire, this is where true freedoms lay.
          Show me a man who has forgotten words, so that I can have a word with him.

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          • #6
            Doc human?

            Strange idea that certainly is...

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            • #7
              same

              i found this sight the exact same way lipster did lol but i think i got all of the videos of that monk he kinds looks like the guy running the ny temple dosent he?

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              • #8
                Oh, and if he hadn't said it in a while, thanks Doc.....

                Now if you could have as much luck at "church" as with website hits....
                practice wu de

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                • #9
                  If I had as much luck at church as I did web site hits, I'd be in the hospital.

                  At this point in my life, any luck at church would be worth praying for.... lol
                  Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...

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                  • #10
                    Some interesting site statistics, over the past few months.

                    ON the main russbo.com hosted site, we've gone from a monthly average of almost one hundred thousand visitors, with over one hundred and thirty thousand different page views in December and January, to, fourteen thousand visitors with around thirty six thousand different page views.

                    ON the new server, which houses the discussion forum, photo library, links, and other mechanical stuff (x.russbo.com), we've been bouncing around about ten thousand visitors a month, with over ninety thousand different page views.

                    Overall, from 120,000 visitors a month in January with 210,000 page views, to about 25,000 visitors with 125,000 pageviews a month now.

                    Interesting.

                    Less people, more reading. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
                    Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...

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                    • #11
                      does that mena our nonsensical rambling is actually worth reading to some people?

                      dave
                      simple and natural is my method,
                      true and sincere is my principle --Tse Sigung

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                      • #12
                        I don't know quite how to take it. We've got a lot less visitors, partly no doubt a result of the eternal breakdown of the links in the main section. Moving to the new forum was a major part of it also. Just don't understand why people aren't coming back.

                        Guess it will just take some time.
                        Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...

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                        • #13
                          hmmm... yup i know even for myself trying to find the new forum was a bit mad at first, as well as finding certain areas of the site Maybe you should get Cheye to come up with some logos or advertising banners for Rusbbo to place all over the Web? Im sure she could come up with something "interesting"

                          dave
                          simple and natural is my method,
                          true and sincere is my principle --Tse Sigung

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                          • #14
                            Posters

                            Doc,

                            and all participants. To make you feel a bit better, this actually not only a phenomena of russbo.com, but other websites as well. being a member of Shaolinwolf and a few others, this odd thing is happening on their boards as well. The number of members increases, but less people read actually more. It's weird, but I consider it actually good, because in my opinion this will in the long run elevate the quality of the discussion.

                            Uwe

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                            • #15
                              And why do you think they are afraid to post? Are they just all so overwhelmed by the quality, the intelligence, the depth of our submissions?

                              Or do they read this shit and walk away muttering something about "morons"?

                              It's an interesting phenomena. We were getting upwards of eight thousand visitors a day; now, we're down to one to two thousand. (Last Wednesday, we had quite the jump in visitation, with over twenty five thousand individual page views in one day; I assume, triggered by the showing of the dreaded PBS special that assassinated my character. I suspect that airiing of the PBS special has actually turned people against me, and my site). All very bizarre.

                              About advertising russbo.com, well, I'm against it. I'm against any sort of commercialization of what I'm doing here. I started this web site years ago, with the sole idea of just transmitting information and stories of my journeys to China to my friends. It has turned out to be quite the institution ever since. But my priorities are to show and portray Shaolin and it's workings as they are; no bullshit, no nonsense, no fake spirituality, no pseudo gong fu kempo, no "I'm a master and a grandmaster all in one, and my dick is bigger than yours" nonsense. Just real Shaolin arts, as they truly are. But, as I've learned in life, people don't always appreciate the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. And whatever sweet sounding bullshit they can find on the web, or in real life, that is more attuned to what they want to hear, they will gravitate to it.

                              And they certainly can. I am not going to lose any sleep over it. Life is full of delusions, and people are always getting misled and taken advantage of, which is why I always say, "question, research, and question again".

                              I assure you, that regardless of what the site visitation does on russbo.com, I am not changing the format that I've started with. There is going to be no commercialization. There is going to be no advertising of any kind. And there is going to be no bullshit.

                              People can do what they want with that.
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