Forum BUG

Well look at this topics VIEWS.. cant be true right ?

I discovered a simple bug with that. The forum software counts every refresh that is done at the selected topic.

I wrote a quick tool that allows me to refresh the topic rapidly..

Please fix this bug.

Moved to "Website issues".

Do NOT use tools which automatically refresh pages on our site. We have in the past permanently IP banned users for doing so. It can slow the server down for everybody.

I dont do this for fun , i just noticed that the views of my topics increases rapidly . i checked if I was the whole viewers, and it was true. i tested it and it worked. So i want to tell you this "bug" .

I am not a bad person, just saying.

btw i will never do this again

It would be kind of cool to have a forum prison instead of IP ban. Then these prisoners would only be allowed to talk with each other and with the spam bots that are trapped in there<img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> Maybe with some rep they could bail out.

This was more related to what Ashley said and I'm not serious.

Well, i just wanted to inform you about this bug, it could be used to win competitions or smth. i dont know but its not good :(

It's not so much a bug as it is a possible issue. It's simply the absence of software checking to make sure the user hasn't visited the same thread within the last X minutes.

This has also been mentioned before, along with the fact that some users - including me - have noticed double view counts, which hasd been going on for a couple years now.