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    Posting a new thread question

    I open a new thread and type in my text. As soon as I click on Submit many times (but not always) I see that there are already three or more views. How can that be?


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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Your own view counts. If you click the same thread 10 times it will add 10 views.
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    I know that but I'm not clicking the thread multiple times. I type my message then press Submit and that's all I do and yet I see more than one view. I always see one view but why two or more. How can people view my thread before I submit it or is it because they see my thread before I see it?


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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Bots.

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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    Bots.
    Works for me

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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    I've always wondered about that. I would guess that a fair number of the guests are lurkers, or those who ended up here from a Google search, but bots are pretty likely, too.
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    Works for me

    There are currently 2962 users online. 37 members and 2925 guests
    Maybe you new a new message:

    There are currently 2962 users online. 37 members, 2900 guests, and 25 bots


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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    I suspect that the number of guests and bots might be reversed.
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    By the way, if a bot answers your question...you should give up programming.

    Just imagine! There's a bot, poking around in the forum, hoovering up information, links, email addresses left unguarded, and whatever else, when suddenly it notices a question that is so pathetically easy that even its dubious bot-brain thinks, "Yeah, man! I got this!"

    If that ever happens to you....just give up.
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    By the way, if a bot answers your question...you should give up programming.
    Please give up programming



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    Good answer. Pretty fly for a bot guy.....I guess that makes you a bot-fly.
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by jmsrickland View Post
    I know that but I'm not clicking the thread multiple times. I type my message then press Submit and that's all I do and yet I see more than one view. I always see one view but why two or more. How can people view my thread before I submit it or is it because they see my thread before I see it?
    I have the New Posts page open all day and just sit in front of it hitting F5 continually until I see your name show up. Sometimes I get so excited that my hand shakes on the mouse and I accidentally open the thread more than once.

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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    I can understand that


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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by bot1 View Post
    Please give up programming

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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    It was right there in the post

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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    It was right there in the post
    You mean a mod put that there ? I thought the user put that there with humorous intent lol
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    I thought he was quoting me....which shows that I didn't even bother to read my own posts, let alone that one.
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    So soon there will be bot2?
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

    Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
    You mean a mod put that there ? I thought the user put that there with humorous intent lol
    There's an app for that
    I fixed the thread by adding-> Added by Site Administrator - Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    There's an app for that
    I fixed the thread by adding-> Added by Site Administrator - Steve
    Hope you updated the app too
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

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    By the way, if a bot answers your question...you should give up programming.

    Just imagine! There's a bot, poking around in the forum, hoovering up information, links, email addresses left unguarded, and whatever else, when suddenly it notices a question that is so pathetically easy that even its dubious bot-brain thinks, "Yeah, man! I got this!"

    If that ever happens to you....just give up.
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    Hitting the sauce a bit Sapator?
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    You wouldn't imagine
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    Re: Posting a new thread question

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    Works for me

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