Thread views???

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when ever I post a thread, it immediately says that there have been 6 or 9 views, when there hasn't been time for anyone to view it.

whats with this?

Edit: oddly, this one didn't do it. :/

Aside from the OP viewing, each actual view counts as three "views".

just means ppl are reading it and not responding

actually, to reduce load on the database server, 1 out of 3 peoples' views are actually counted as 3 views. 2 out of 3 peoples' views are not counted at all. While this may be inaccurate early on (either overestimated or underestimated), after a while, it becomes more accurate as time goes by.

Nice trick Alex!

And... to fool people more deviously, so they are very unlikely to figure out what's going on, a random choice would work a treat too.

I.e. for each view, you ignore it at random, with just a 1/10th chance of doing anything with it. On that one out of ten occasion, you randomly select a number from one to nineteen to add to the database count.

Even better would be if you have the current view count handy. You could always add one per view to start with, and progressively ramp up the rate of ignores as the view count became larger. This would be ideal, as the stored count would always be expected to be within quite a narrow percentage of the true count, plus the popular threads would pretty much stop pestering the database at all.