Rick posted a few "rules" about view-counts the other day, but that made me wonder...
When I look at a forum, does the viewcount get an uptick every time I click to go to the next page?
If I've just posted a new message, the view counter gets several ticks for all the views and updates that takes... But what about if I use my "back" button from there to go back to the topic list?
So if I click through two or three pages in a topic, then post a message, then use the "Back" button to return to the forum list, I could be adding eight or ten ticks to the "Views" list, when really I only visited it once?
No wonder the count gets so high!
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