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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Well, I wouldn't even know who she is if it wasn't for that thread (more specifically, I wouldn't know if posts from that thread were not getting reported constantly because I wouldn't read it otherwise). Frankly, I don't care if she is Spanish, fake Spanish, sort of Spanish, or not Spanish at all.

As far as DCUM goes, she is a minor celebrity at best. Topics about Kane have driven several times as much traffic here and he is the unrivaled star of DCUM. Let's just hope that he doesn't suddenly develop a foreign accent.

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I’m out of it, who is Kane?[/quote]

LOL. I didn't know who he was either until a thread here about him blew up. I've told this story before so I apologize to those who've heard it before. Kane was a morning drive time radio show host. He broadcast from a Maryland suburb near here, but his show was syndicated nationwide. I rarely have in-person meetings with anyone about DCUM, but one day I had gone to meet a perspective advertiser. I brought my iPad that has mobile data connectivity in order to demonstrate how DCUM works. During my meeting, the website was very slow which was extremely unusual. I blamed it on the data connection.

When I got home, I had many alerts from my monitoring system warning of slow performance. I started troubleshooting and really could not find anything wrong. While trying to find the problem, I kept seeing a thread from the Entertainment forum about a radio show keep getting bumped to the top of Recent Topics. I had no interest in that thread and it seemed pretty obscure so I ignored it. After many hours, I noticed that thread had thousands of views. It turns out that morning Kane had had some sort of breakdown on air and was crying about his wife leaving him. Someone had started a thread on DCUM and it must have been the first hit for "Kane" on Google. Posters showed up from all over and that thread almost immediately became one of the most viewed in the history of DCUM. Suddenly, DCUM became home base for any discussions about the Kane show, which proved to be a never-ending soap opera. I locked that thread at some point and another was created. I think I locked that one and another was created. One way or another, about a dozen Kane threads were eventually started. Then some spin-offs about other personalities from the show and about his wife's blog. In the top 30 most viewed threads on DCUM, Kane threads make up about 10 of them. I have no proof, but I suspect that those threads are responsible for the popularity of other entertainment threads here including the Hilaria Baldwin thread because I think the Kane threads attracted users with such interests.

Kane eventually lost his show -- a topic of another thread here.

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