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If 'HOT pics' and 'PI one digit at a time' can both attract well over a thousand views in about 12 hours then something unusual is going on.
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No shit, Sherlock ;-)
Excellent experiment. We now know MURCers are both geeks and perverts.
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The hot pics thread could be explained by search engines (e.g. from porn sites to gather "free" explicit photos). But the "Pi one digit at a time" has me stumped...Comment
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Could be many reasons:Originally posted by VJ View Post
- it's done to profile forum users for directed advertising purposes; one of the many methods employed
- harvest human responses to train bots to post spam on forums without being detected as being bots
- etc.
Again, I don't really care about the page views, as likely the same thing is happening for EVERY public accessible forum out there.
As long as traffic limits on the server are not exceeded because of this phenomenon, who cares? At least, that's the conclusion I drew from the poll results...Comment
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Perhaps it is the mathematician/computer scientist in me, but the big difference between page view is interesting. I agree it need not be a problem, but it is interesting to see that some threads seem to have so much more views than others...
Brian's Sasq thread got almost 6000 views, whereas DocMordid's spacecraft shields thread struggles to reach 300...Comment
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Not so! http://www.cypenv.eu/envenergy/eefor...hp?topic=487.0 has produced 31 views.Originally posted by dZeus View Post
I can go further: these astronomical figures appear to have started on postings from December 2011 and they now seem to have been getting smaller. The 26,000-odd views on the post Season's Greetings (same as above) is now 100!
Correction: the 100 views are on this board, it is now 29,000-odd on the Desktop Video board. Can I claim a MURC record for nearly 30,000 views on a single post?Last edited by Brian Ellis; 10 January 2013, 04:01.Brian (the devil incarnate)
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maybe they're using a method of weighting what to scan, based on e.g. perceived popularity of content?Originally posted by Brian Ellis View PostComment
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Stupid question: any chance that the view counter is buggy?Comment
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So has 'Adobe management believes in Karma ' got 3889 views from people hoping to see ...sutra?FT.Comment
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OK, I googled a bit, and the vbulletin view counter is not the number of unique views, but the total number of views, including views by the same user.
This also might mean that auto refresh and auto reload functions may impact views. I'm testing this on a thread in the moderators forum (it is invisible, so the number of views should not increase), which I have open in a tab and set to refresh every 5 seconds. I don't know how frequent Sasq has set the cron job to update the counter, so the effect may not be immediately visible, but if this updates the counter then people just keeping a tab or window open may cause the view counter to increase substantially.
edit: my other thread got 25 hits while typing this... As the number of moderators is limited, and the thread hidden for even members here, it must be due to the refresh.Comment
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