drewfx1

Ham N Egz
I ran an experiment
I opened this thread up in a broswer
I hit the F5 key three times
 
the views incremented 3 times
 
so why the blazes wood anybody want to do that or have the time
 
 
dumb
 
 
 
 

Not endorsing it, but if one sorted a forum by views it's a way of bumping one's own thread.

The FSF has bumps all over it.
 
A visit to the Doc may be in order.

Now you'd think forum software as expensive as this would be intelligent enough to count "unique" views instead of just every time the frigging page gets loaded. What a crock. Reminds me of early search engines that weren't clever enough to identify that when a page had "DISCOUNT JEWELRY" written 600 times in succession that it was probably keyword stuffing. 
 

sharke
Now you'd think forum software as expensive as this would be intelligent enough to count "unique" views instead of just every time the frigging page gets loaded. What a crock.

So you think it's worth using processing power doing compares on every thread hit in order to solve this "problem"? 

sharke
Now you'd think forum software as expensive as this would be intelligent enough to count "unique" views instead of just every time the frigging page gets loaded. What a crock. Reminds me of early search engines that weren't clever enough to identify that when a page had "DISCOUNT JEWELRY" written 600 times in succession that it was probably keyword stuffing. 
 

James,
 
Do you happen to know where I can get cheap flights?

bapu

sharke
Now you'd think forum software as expensive as this would be intelligent enough to count "unique" views instead of just every time the frigging page gets loaded. What a crock. Reminds me of early search engines that weren't clever enough to identify that when a page had "DISCOUNT JEWELRY" written 600 times in succession that it was probably keyword stuffing. 
 

James,
 
Do you happen to know where I can get cheap flights?

As it happens, I do! 

sharke
 

drewfx1

sharke
Now you'd think forum software as expensive as this would be intelligent enough to count "unique" views instead of just every time the frigging page gets loaded. What a crock.

So you think it's worth using processing power doing compares on every thread hit in order to solve this "problem"? 

Well otherwise, what exactly is the point of a view counter? It's not as if counting unique views is out of the ordinary. Look at Google Analytics, for example. It captures a ridiculous amount of data about the browsing behavior of people on your site, and unique views are an integral part of it. 
 

 
GA isn't running on the host site though (apart from some embedded tags) - AFAIK it's running in the user's browser (for people not smart enough to block it) and on GA's own sites.
 
Also there's a big difference between mining logs offline for, say, unique hits for advertisers vs. real time updates like the view count. And if you write the code to run in the user's browser and their browser doesn't execute the code successfully for whatever reason, then your count is wrong too.
 

 
Without it, the counter is pointless. What if I'm looking at a thread, and then I refresh the page to see if there have been any updates? Should that count as another "view"? 

You updated the thread and I viewed it again - does that count as another view or not? If not, keep in mind that then you can have more replies to a thread than views. Does that make sense? Otherwise you have to check repeated views against any updates too for every time the thread is accessed by anyone. And if one of us refreshes it repeatedly because we are really that interested in the thread, then why shouldn't that count?
 
It's just a counter and it counts what it counts. The only real problem I can see is if there are trolls abusing it just to annoy someone or others who manage to constantly reload pages enough to have a meaningful (whatever that means) effect on the results. Is this really a common problem?
 
It's just a counter and it counts what it counts.

So there's hackers here? Hmm, who'd of thought.

This is Baps house.

bapu

paulo

bapu
Maybe Dave just needed to post it to appease said "upset member". When he didn't get the accused to step forward and say "I did it and I'm sorry, but I was young and stupid" or "I never incremented thread view count without permission of the thread owner", he was compelled to delete it.

Maybe he got upset because too many people were looking at it ?
 
Apparently that's a thing now.

It's so hard to keep with what the kidz are into these days, ya?

 
I find it easier not to try.

Uh oh, looks like Mesh is upset.

jamesg1213
The place is awash with tears.

 
Awashed like a beached Songship brought down by a consortium of barnacles?