Version: 4.0, by daveaite
Developer Last Online: Oct 2015
Category: Major Additions -
Version: 4.2.2
Rating:
Released: 12-21-2014
Last Update: Never
Installs: 13
Uses Plugins Auto-Templates
No support by the author.
The best fake stats plugin available, by far.
Get FULL CONTROL on who's online, the number of people viewing forum categories, fake users, real users, randomizing users and much more with vBSocial Fake Stats!
= free feature thats pretty legit Fake Users viewing # + real viewers = dynamic number
Watch the Video Demonstration (many new features added since video, see below)
Ever wonder how big forums and boards like ESPN, Warrior Forum, Digital Point and others started. At one point or another they did what some people call ?Fake it till you make it.? Every massive board has done this at one point or another to while they were just getting started. Its? called social proof. If other ?people? are on the forum, then they want to join in too. But if no one uses the forum, or appears to be using the forum, no one will join.
The fact is, forum work is extremely tedious to start off with. Its? like building a snowman. At first, the snowball takes time to get round, and get big. But once it is big, and you continue to roll it, it just gets? bigger and bigger. And you can stop using fake stats at that point.
So what does Fake Stats do for vBulletin?
Everything! It shows:
Lite Version
Fake member count
Fake user count
Fake date
Fake registered usernames on vBulletin ?Whats? going On?
Fake # of thread count
Fake # of posts count
Fake time of greatest number of users online
Ability to show as many fake usernames in whats? going on
Preset usernames, over 30, already listed right on plugin installation
Ability to turn on and off specific settings.
Ability to show real usernames with fake usernames
When user clicks on fake username, link goes to register, or have no link at all.
Fake users are randomized with real users
Which usergroups can see fake stats
Limitations, features only in pro version
Allows ability to add 0-1000+ fake users, and automatically creates profiles, adapts to user css, and shows them online
Ability to set usergroup for fake users who are added
Notes:
Its' extremely powerful as long as you dont go overboard and make outrageous claims about your forum. Without saying where this is deployed on some client sites, it is extremely effective
in making the site look a lot more active and creating a feeling of active environment.
Any forum owner KNOWS that its key to have an active looking forum to get the forum to be MORE active. In the end, if no posting is going on the forum, this plugin will not help. It compliments an active admin.
In response to that - the full vers creates fake/real users, and profiles so they do show in who's online AND match up. xD
This option needs to be in the lite version as there is no point in installing it unless it has. As I said with out this option its like you are forcing members to buy it so they can just have this option and in my point its the only reason I would install it