User profile counter

Hey All,

It's not really a bug but something I noticed...
I was checking cwk9's profile and ment to hit home and hit refresh instead.
The counter for "user's profile views xxx" went up one.
I figured I'd check and everytime you hit refresh, the counter goes up.
Also, if you "blitz" the refresh button (click on it continously without stop) the counter jumps 5+ counts.

Just thought I'd point this out...

Edit: Maybe, JP can set it so that the profile count will only increase 1 per day per user?
(ie: I check cwk9's profile 3 times today but only counts 1) Just a suggestion...

btw, cwk9, your welcome for increasing your count :) jk!

Haha. I used to go to this site that had the top 10 most active users. It did this by counting page views. I inserted the HTML refresh code in my profile and pointed it at the URL of my profile so it would go in a constant loop and keep adding to my page views. I opened a couple browsers, walked away, and byt the end of the day I was on the top 10 most active users list. Haha. Good times.

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Haha. I used to go to this site that had the top 10 most active users. It did this by counting page views. I inserted the HTML refresh code in my profile and pointed it at the URL of my profile so it would go in a constant loop and keep adding to my page views. I opened a couple browsers, walked away, and byt the end of the day I was on the top 10 most active users list. Haha. Good times.

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And JP, if your fixing that refresh problem, why don't you add code so that the counter doesn't increment when a user is checking their own profile.

;)

Greg

I bumped this tread since it has some importance now with the top10 viewed profiles...

There's still nothing to keep the person from registering a dummy account and THEN doing it. I say we do away with the page views for profiles altogether. It would help make the front page's left column left bloated too.