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.

[Shazz]

It works ok.

[Hemanth]

Need a Real Change. Instead of manually entereing the Name of fake users online, use Users offline for Xdays. It's really helpfull & More powerfull..

Also in who's online add some threads & posts with the Fake members & Guests.

Then it'll be a perefect product.

We're ready for code chages if needed..

Please..

[007]

I wouldn't be caught dead using this hack. What a great impression to send to your members.. Lieing to them to get them to join. That's a bad reputation that will be hard to lose.. Don't you think that once your "new members" sign up and realize they were duped that they will be slightly upset? I would be. This is a very annoying hack that does no good for the vBulletin community. It's a shame to see that people are actually using it too.

This hack should maybe be renamed to the Enron hack or the Martha Stewart hack. :-D

[rogersnm]

If you don't like it then you don't like it. But you don't have to insult everyone else who uses it.

[SnitchSeeker]

Nice plug-in!

I like it because we delete all members who are inactive for more than 6 months with one or less posts. Thus, even though we show currently having over 13,000 members, in reality (if we hadn't deleted inactive users) we would have well over 60,000.

So I don't feel I am "cheating" by using it. But rather showing how popular our site really is.

[albn]

I tried this hack, and while this may be helpful for some, it does not work me. If somebody knows how to look, the stats are obviously doctored.

Thanks for sharing this hack though. It may work just fine for some.

[RedTurtle]

yea, I've stopped using this too because I can't get it to work with the "# of users online in the last 24 hours" mod...

if someone can get these two to work together, that'd be kickass.

[antiekeradio]

Originally Posted by 007

I wouldn't be caught dead using this hack. What a great impression to send to your members.. Lieing to them to get them to join. That's a bad reputation that will be hard to lose.. Don't you think that once your "new members" sign up and realize they were duped that they will be slightly upset? I would be. This is a very annoying hack that does no good for the vBulletin community.

spot on...

its actually the first really, really bad vbulletin mod I see. not because it doesn't work technically but because it doesn't work, period.

so, i'm skipping.. better luck next time :banana:

[masterross]

hello,

i use your hack to change only some stats:

i puted in:
forumhome_complete

// Fake Active Members
$fake_active = $vbulletin->userstats['activemembers'] + 1000;
$activemembers = vb_number_format($fake_active);

// Fake Online GUESTS
// Regular users will see Guest entries missing on the online.php page
$fake_guest = $numberguest + 1000;
$numberguest = vb_number_format($fake_guest);

$fake_total = $totalonline + 1000;
$totalonline = vb_number_format($fake_total);
$fake_max = $recordusers + 1000;
$recordusers = vb_number_format($fake_max);

and in:
online_complete

// Fake Online GUESTS
// Regular users will see Guest entries missing on the online.php page
$fake_guest = $numberguests + 1000;
$numberguests = vb_number_format($fake_guest);
$totalonline = vb_number_format($fake_total);
// temporarly included to address a bug in vb?
$fake_max = $recordusers + 1000;
$recordusers = vb_number_format($fake_max);

and it works ok untill i reached "Most users ever online 1000+ "
now it's shown:
Most users ever online was 1,001, Yesterday at 20:26.
in forumhome

but in online.php is still ok:
Most users ever online was 2,042, Yesterday at 20:26.

can you help me where i'm wrong?

thanks,
Ross

[Muellmann]

you had a great idea and i was happy to see such hack, but because
of a few bugs i considered to deactivate this product again.

it has a few bugs or maybe it's specially wanted to be such.
if i added a fake user to be online (in this case the admin who should be appear 24h online) and if i removed this user again it remains a semicolon before all
users like this:

Users Online
,Eric, Nataly, Sonja

what makes this hack in my opinion totally useless is the fact, that
the fake users are not clickable in the list
so everybody determines the fake immediately

i just wanted to be my admin always online something other i need not