Works perfect 5 of 5 :p

I am using this now on http://wetalk.tv/ and works fine on 3.6.8 without any problems. It gives the impression it is not a dead forum, and that is appealing to new visitors. And once the site gets going the % of fake stats goes down to be replaced with real activity.

*Installed*

Works very nicely on my 3.6.8 board.

Thanks for sharing. :)

When i click on the attachment, it shows as an .efw file and will not let me open or save. I've never had this problem before. I see nothing, no xml, nothing.

Would anyone have any idea as to why? Very strange...

So who got more members using this?

Question:

On the example of 5000 guest you have showed in the attachement.

Would that amount be distributed randomly thru-out the forum.

For example:

Forum name:

Testing-----(198 Viewing)

Testing 2---(654Viewing)

Thanks Much

Im browsing for a statistic mod and im confused on why anyone would want this one. So you can pretty much lie about your forum stats?

Thank you

No, I didn't code that feature because it causes more server load to calculate and then to randomly dstribute them out. You can, however, dump them all into a forum where you are hiding who's browsing etc. using custom conditional variables. Additionally, if you're going to cheat, cheat reasonable, 5000 is to show how ridiculous it could do, but it is very easily to be found out. What is reasonable? Use common sense ;)

Long story short, yes.

Can you evenly distribute the post and thread to all the forum or all the specified Forum. Instead only one FORUm?

Like adding 10000 thread to 1 Forum is look so not nice. But if you could ditribute each forum an even of 1000 thread would look much nicer :d

There is 2 mistakes on this

1. If i dont put any names in, it lists a comma in front of all my users like ,

2. If i put 2 peoples names in as active, if you click VIEW WHOS ONLINE the names dont appear there meaning if there are

4 real members online and my 2 fake ones you click view whos online and it says

4 members it doesnt say 6 members and it only lists the 4 members names

Something isnt working right people are going to figure that one out go quickly!

Works Great! (3.6.8)

I wish we could get fake threads and posts for the the forums on my site

You must to change viewing thread members count too
and also hide current online user ID's

I like this hack!!

One question though, is it okay to use this hack? I dont want google to see this as a cloak or anything. What I mean is we do not get ban if we use this right?

Perfect for april fool! :)

To answer a few questions that came up:
1) I didn't do the fake names thing, so I'm not 100% sure on the code. Though, I don't think it'd be an major issue to correct. I vaguely recall doing some hacking on this hack to get rid of the extra coma I had on one of my test forums, so I'll try to look into that extra coma thing tomorrow if and when I have time...

2) Re: not adding up; invisible users already causes problem adding up. I posted this bug report a while back, and it was marked as working per designed: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=12482

As such, no fix will be provided to change the numbers on WOL page, and no names will be added to it. They are, for all anyone can care, invisible users.

3) This is just altering displayed number; it shouldn't get you banned from Google. If it does, Google is most likely on drugs or a power trip. Typically, from my understanding, Google bans people for making contents to attempt to inflate their search engine ranking / page ranking; not for displaying fake numbers... But, if you feel unsafe, don't use it. I just wrote part of the code for it, I'm not going to be responsible for what Google does on their part.

dang i can get on the big boards now.lol

This mod is big-boards compliant, so doubt it.

My sites 2 years ago: pr6,4,4,5,6,6,6,7
My sites today: pl6,3,5,5,6,6,4,7

this hack is great!! Thank you...

One problem.. when the hack is enabled in admincp, post count in the forum with the fake threads and posts stopped to increase post count... only threads count working fine.

any idea how I can fix this?

Thank you for your help.

Shouldn't be the case because it adds to the value. Please check to see if there are any other addons which edits the values.

Installed! Good job people! Hopefully this will give us a boost and then we won't have to fake anything later! A++

how to fake viewing user in category forum . sample : (989viewing) ?

how to fake viewing user in category forum . sample : (989viewing) ?

Thanks,

**Clicks Install**

It is possible that this hack is causing an error on my homepage online member counters:
"Max. users online was 1, 01-01-1970 at 00:00." and "The most guests online over 24 hours was 1, 01-01-1970 at 00:00" ?

Can someone update this to work with 3.7?

That's what I'm waiting for! Specifically RC2!

I did do test with Beta 2 and it worked, I see no reason why this would not work for RC2 as that section of the templates and variables haven't been modified as far as I'm aware of.

Thanks for your great mod. I think after a while if people are going back to the forum they might see the same statistics and thought it might be fake. If you can modify this mod to change the stat every once a while with different fake users, statistics then I think it would be GREAT

does this work with 3.7.0?

need for vb.3.7 version,
can hack viewing category forum.

Any plans for 3.7 support? I used this for 3.6 and it was great but recently upgraded to 3.7 and it isn't compatible :(

I was able to install the plugin by making some small modifications to the xml file but the member names you create don't show up on the member list :(

Will this work for 3.7? :)

work with 3.7? what does not work if you do import this mod?

Try reading posts above yours

Just installed on 3.7.2 and it works fine! Just gotta edit the XML file like so...

FIND:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="3.7.0" />

CHANGE TO:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="3.8.0" />

Good mod, but it can easily found out by members by looking at the fake user id. When hover on the names, it show domain.com/#.

Or did I forgot to configure something?

Maybe upload that to the thread so users here don't have to repeat that process :D

Hi Floris,

Unfortunately, I had to uninstall this as the last member to register kept showing as online continuously and was freaking my members out (one in particular). I noticed that there was a Comer before the user ID's. I don't know if it was relevant to it.