Originally posted by James Cridland I want to make this un-hackable, so people can't bump their threads to the top.
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1. How many views has it had?
2. How many replies has it had?
You need to add checking mechanism to make it "unhackable". A member can easilily reply to his own thread a few times to increase its "point". Same applies to increasing view count via refresh..
If I were you I would use a mechanism to encourage or force thread rating instead. For example you may consider making thread rating mandatory whenever user replied that thread.. My 2 cents..