Anonymous stats on tracking

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Title:
Anonymous stats on tracking

Area:
Stats/Notifications

Summary:
Since Dreamwidth allows users to track things, it might be interesting to have a page where we can look up how many people are tracking what things.

Description:
Dreamwidth users have the option to track (get inbox/e-mail notifications) of certain things: posts, comments, posts with certain tags,...

It might be of interest to know how many people are tracking what in your journal: how many are tracking post X, how many comments on post Y, are there people getting notified when I post using the tag "dreamwidth dev", etc. This suggestion has been brought up on Livejournal before: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/969654.html

For privacy reasons, I am suggesting implementing this completely anonymously: only the number of people tracking should be shown, no further identifying data.

As for the "security by seeing no-one tracking you" raised in the LJ suggestions community, a note on the page, as suggested here: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/969654.html?thread=15741878#t15741878 ("these stats have been gathered from XYZ however please note that they do not include who is tracking your journal using different methods") might be a good idea.

This would also fit in neatly with http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/253742.html , as part of a "personal stats" page", in my opinion.

Poll #2594 Anonymous stats on tracking

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (52.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (13.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (15.9%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (18.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)