Warning about view-counts on Posts!
First off, I am aware that the viewcount has probably been possible to game in other ways before which should have been in most people's minds, especially those going off theviewcount to reward some authors extra. Hence why I put the "warning" in the title to not have users be tricked into rewarding a post more because the amount of views might seem really high, feeling the post deserves it more because of it.
Having said that it wasn't as easy to game it as to just press refresh multiple times in the past so something must have occurred in the meantime. @steeminator3000 made me aware of this bug.
This was tested with Google Chrome on a post and was adding views on each refresh. Please feel free to test it with other browsers if its the same.
For the time being please refrain from voting posts up higher because it has a lot of views and attention since it very well might be fake by users that have realized of this bugs existence.
I don't think this was a problem in Opera until a few days ago, but I've noticed it has started there, too now. I honestly preferred it the other way, because it meant I could look at my post as many times as I wanted (I'm an obsessive proof-reader.) without affecting the count. So I wasn't inflating my view results if I looked at my posts every day -- or even several times a day.
There seems to be another bug in Steemit which breaks images that were fine when the piece was originally published, but suddenly the image is missing, and only the name of the image appears. By playing with this I've found it's actually a lot more complicated in ways I don't understand and won't try to explain here.
Sometimes exactly the same code works, and sometimes -- under different circumstances -- it doesn't. Again ... it's impossible to explain quickly what I've discovered about this. But I can make the very same picture appear and disappear -- until the post is too old to edit. And then it's broken forever. Which really annoys me, because I can't fix it so it will stay fixed. And I can't trust that just because it was right in the beginning that it will stay that way. So I've gotten pretty paranoid about checking my posts for as long as it's possible to get to them in the edit feature.
But, yes I would really like it if I could check my posts as often as I want and not affect the view count. That annoys me, too ... so @acidyo, if you have any influence over this, please continue to push or work on the issue. And thank you so much for this post noting that you and others are aware of it. (Makes me a little less crazy. Which, as you may be able to tell, is also a problem!! [smile] )
It used to be a thing for youtube before. Don’t know if it still works but pretty sure there are people selling views there too.
Yeah it is a known bug, the code which was written sees if there is a refresh happen on the page or not. If yes then it will increase the counter.
The code can be modified to use one per ip address. Then also people will find a way to use proxy websites which give you different ip every time. But it will be little better in terms of
Yo acid
Are you talking about Steemit.com, I presume so?
Currently on the eSteem app as the above appears offline.
Also we have busy.org, I'm wondering if the stats can be fiddled using these locations too.
Cheers
Asher
dang that’s cool someone found this out. thanks
Thanks for sharing... nice to know about this particular feature. What is alarming me though is for posts receiving hundreds of votes with less than 10 views which may mean only bots are voting for it. It degenerates the quality of engagement here in steemit.
As a social media platform, I believe, we need real people for interactions and engagements not just bots that are upvoting or downvoting one another.
Bots are run by human beings. Bots are human beings voting with their stake in an automated manner.
Bottom line is that most of the time (99% of the time). They are upvoting or downvoting without really reading the content or even without them logging in which means that there is no real interaction.
Interactions or engagements are the values of a good social media platform, if Steemit won't have it then there is no real value in the platform.
resteem and upvoted. lets spread this article it will be helpful.
@cleverbot
People should be voting the article if "THEY" like it, not if the post have been viewed by many people. A lot of views does not mean that the Post is deserving your upvote!
Good point, views dont send posts to hot or trending and I always check contents...however I have my favourites in my steem voter and you are one of them...thanks
still happening
Log in to you account
On blog tap click any post.
Mark the counter let us say it’s 15.
Close the post
Refresh the page
Click the post and look at the counter it should be 16.
Repeat from point 4 the counter keep going up.