Author Topic: Why does the last thread in the RTB listings have so many veiws? (Read 698 times)

Mr.No�ody · May 20, 2015, 05:50:53 PM

It appears in the old RTB board, the last thread in there has an unusual amount of views to it.

None of the other topics on the first page even push 10k views. Why does that topic have over 300k views to it?

Looking at the who's online board it seems that most of the random guests we get floating in land on that topic and dont leave it. Why? Is there something hidden there or are the bots just flocking to the same topic for no reason?

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Freek · May 20, 2015, 05:51:55 PM

That is very odd. I would imagine it to be because it's the last topic in that board, but there's no reason it should have over 340 thousand views

Honno · May 20, 2015, 05:52:39 PM

probably because people click here?

Mr.No�ody · May 20, 2015, 05:57:36 PM

Quote from: Honno on May 20, 2015, 05:52:39 PM

probably because people click here?

People who are guests, on a board in the archive, to a topic that's addon is no longer accessible?
Yeah...

No but really. Check the "who's on" board. Quite a few of the random guest users are fixated on that topic.

Edit: It seems that at the moment most of the guests are looking at this topic now.

The Resonte! · May 20, 2015, 06:05:28 PM

Quote from: Mr.No�ody on May 20, 2015, 05:57:36 PM

Edit: It seems that at the moment most of the guests are looking at this topic now.

SHHH THEY'RE WATCHING

ZombiLoin · May 20, 2015, 07:08:05 PM

Same thing with the other boards in the section.

Quote from: Honno on May 20, 2015, 05:52:39 PM

probably because people click here?

#Ravencroft · May 20, 2015, 07:18:55 PM

This one has almost 300k compared to the other ones all having around 2k
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=199902.0

Boink! · May 20, 2015, 07:21:16 PM

Quote from: Mr.No�ody on May 20, 2015, 05:57:36 PM

Edit: It seems that at the moment most of the guests are looking at this topic now.

guests are weird

ZSNO · May 20, 2015, 08:18:38 PM

It's probably bots looking at the topmost thread

Zeblote · May 21, 2015, 04:28:17 AM

It's probably crawlers starting at the front page and since that topic is always linked there, they'll open it too.

portify · May 21, 2015, 05:00:27 AM

Same goes for Mapping Help and Maps. The last topic in the "locked" boards always has several hundred thousand views.
It's just one of the links on the front page, that's all. All the web crawlers flock to it.