Forum Home Enhancements - Fake Community Statistics

Due to the recent announcement of Internet Brands telling they are suing XenForo, I decided to immediately stop updating my vBulletin modifications, because I am not supporting this action.

[Celtic_Mad]

When can we expect the next update?

[Floris]

Originally Posted by Celtic_Mad

When can we expect the next update?

When it is done.

[krispy1812]

This is a cool hack and I don't understand some of the people posting the nasty things they have posted.

You can have the busiest forum in the world, and people wouldn't join it just because everyone else has.

Forum admins have being finding ways to manipulate their stats for ages, this is nothing new. This is just a tool that saves them time, nothing more. It wouldn't stop them from finding other ways of doing it. It would allow a lot of BB admin noobs to learn some of the tricks that the rest of us had to learn through hard toil.

And as for the people claiming it will affect them who have worked to do things the hard way building aup slowly etc etc etc, I say nonsense. Hands up anyone in here claiming that who did NOT register more than one account for themselves on their own forum ???

A good forum is created by ingenuity of differing methods. This is just one of theose ingenious methods. Make your site look busy, make it look big, but whatever you do, don;t make it look empty whilst using the hack! You have to work hard at it every day.

I for one have no problem manipulating my forum stats. No scruples, no conscience, NOTHING. Why not ? because I spent years posting on other forums, helping some geezers I never knew build up good communites with nothing more that casual thanx here and there, whilst they rake in good money on advertising and sponsorship. AND MOST OF US HAVE DONE THINGS LIKE THAT. Instead, do it on your own forums now! Spend your days there talking to all your imaginery friends until some real ones come along. :banana:

This little tool just makes the quick birds eye view of statistics look good a quicker way, so well done.

[HuangA]

Thank you for the kind reply, Krispy1812. Yes, even though I authored most of the fake users online part, I must honestly say that I do have multiple fake/test users on my own forums, and most of my other admins also have them too. This is only used to inflate the numerical readings, but the actual content (which drives members to join) cannot be replaced by serious hard elbow greese.

And also, you can't really fake big numbers with this. Look at the example picture attached in the first post. 5000 online users and 5000 online guests seems just a little bit odd for me Even 50 fake online users and guests (combined) is a bit too much for a booster-required-forum if you ask me...

If anyone wants to donate a spare vBulletin license and prove me wrong, please feel free to do so. Install this hack and make no posts on your own forum. Advertise it if you want, see how much traffic you can get, and how many people will register. I can reassure you that the turn around rate will be very low even if it looks like you have users online

Anyways, I need to hunt down Floris and ask him what happened to the release

[Floris]

I can't tell you, lol

[m80]

looking to use this just had a question, when you do this and your current online number surpasses your most users ever online number, does the most ever online change to keep up with the number created by this hack?

[Floris]

Originally Posted by m80

looking to use this just had a question, when you do this and your current online number surpasses your most users ever online number, does the most ever online change to keep up with the number created by this hack?

Not in version 0.03 no.

[HuangA]

It will in 0.04 though

*baps Floris*

[Celtic_Mad]

So what will the new features be in 0.04?

[rogersnm]

Yeah you kinda need that - Currently Active Users: 89

most ever online 39.... hmmmm lol