IF MY POSTS ARE GETTING ALL THOSE VIEWS

[SHARKIE]

WHY IS NOBODY RESPONDNG???

[Dav999]

Most of those views are probably bots and search spiders.

[SHARKIE]

• there cant possibly be that many search engines and bots out there
• can i make a bot?

[Ally 🌠]

1. what, 400? there's hundreds of thousands. you don't really think there's 369 active members on dware, do you?
2. well, can you program?

[SHARKIE]

• oh
• prolly

[Dav999]

• It doesn't count unique people or bots, it counts unique visits. And if Google visits a topic several times per week, all those visits are counted separately.
• I'm not talking about bots you can interact with - it's just bots that are looking to visit the entire internet or are looking for possible sites to hack.

[SHARKIE]

• so i could visit boost a post by visiting it over and over again?
• i could probably set up a bot hooked up to character.ai

[Dav999]

• I think if you keep visiting the same topic multiple times during the same "visit", or multiple times in a row, it doesn't count. Other than that, yes. But there's no reason to do that, nobody looks at view counters anyway (except for the people who go "300 humans looked at my post and not one of them replied!")
• You really shouldn't do that.

[SHARKIE]

• oh
• why not?
• actually, 369 humans/bots looked at my post