Testing a theory...

CleoKitty

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Mominator

Is your theory that there are a shitton of lurkers on this board? Because I have never seen a post get so many views so fast.

Kapalua

so....now we need to know what the theory is!

summerbrideDC

oooh, what is it?! 

CleoKitty

It worked.

I just proved to myself that it's really easy to quickly up the views on a post all by yourself. 

ETA: You can try it yourself. Click on the title to a post and then veryveryvery rapidly start to click over and over again. Click as fast as you possibly can a couple hundred times in a row. Each click will end up being counted as a new view. 

Mominator

CleoKitty:

It worked.

I just proved to myself that it's really easy to quickly up the views on a post all by yourself. 

All you have to do is just keep hard refreshing inside the post, right?

summerbrideDC

so people intentionally up their own view counts?! why?!

CleoKitty

Mominator:

CleoKitty:

It worked.

I just proved to myself that it's really easy to quickly up the views on a post all by yourself. 

All you have to do is just keep hard refreshing inside the post, right?

Nope, see above. I just edited my last post to say exactly how. 

CleoKitty

summerbrideDC:

so people intentionally up their own view counts?! why?!

No, not necessarily. The same thing works on any post, not just your own. 

4Speedy

 I removed my comment because it came across as really snarky and that's not AT ALL how I meant it.  Before I saw your follow-up, I thought you were working on another theory so my comment made no sense what-so-ever in this context.  Sorry if it seemed rude.

Brideofranken

I love scientific studies!

meghan_marie

LOL Good one.