Every time I start a new thread, I back out to the forum and see that my new thread has already had "2 views".
Who viewed in the few seconds between hitting the "Create Thread" button and me being back in the forum???

I suspect that these "views" are either spurious, or I'm being counted as 1 and the counter starts from 1 (instead of 0), but I'd love to know:

Not a show-stopper, but it has me intrigued:-))

Cheers,
Diolma

Possibly an online Mod looks at your new thread immediately after it's posted.

But of course: if there are several hundred or even a couple of thousand persons browsing the forum at the time -- then some of them are bound to be quick on the draw.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=2706774

It happens for me, and to eliminate coincidence, I've tried it on some deserted forums / old threads.

it's a "feature", not a bug. you hafta access the thread once to read it, but twice to read and reply.

"it's a "feature", not a bug. you hafta access the thread once to read it,
but twice to read and reply."

Hmm. I'm talking about new threads here (ones that I started).
Before I start a new thread, there cannot possibly be any new views.
So I create a new thread. Type in my stuff. Hit create thread. That counts as 1 view??
Then (since at that point I have to back out to get back to thread I've just created), that gets counted as another view?

Well, OK, technically (and purely in web-page-switching terms) I suppose so. But it's not exactly what yer avrerage punter would expect to happen, is it? If I create a thread then I expect the count to be 0 when I exit that thread (unless I've delayed a long time before exiting the thread).
Also, if I enter an existing thread, that should be counted. But if (still within the same thread), I post a reply, I haven't left that thread, I'm still in it. so that shouldn't be counted...

And I suppose that if I post a reply, realise I've mistyped something, edit the post, etc.. each of those gets counted as a view? No wonder some of the view numbers get so high...

But I suppose it doesn't really matter. I'll just ignore the number of views in future as being a statistical anomaly. (IE, useless.)

Cheers,
Diolma

We have view counters? :blink:

Wow, I guess I never noticed, having been distracted by those bright, yellow stars that won't go away by themselves!!!.

:tt2:

Quote - Every time I start a new thread, I back out to the forum and see that my new thread has already had "2 views".
Who viewed in the few seconds between hitting the "Create Thread" button and me being back in the forum???

I had to laugh when I read this, because the same thing happened to me quite often at another forum. I used to wonder, "Who viewed?? (and more importantly), what kind of connection do THEY have??"

lol