MSFN counts are *FAKE*.  Even the SUPERVISORS know it!  We have one or two people logging in each and every day to go back DECADES to "like" a post by three different people.

If I were one of the three people RECEIVING those *FAKE* "likes" and "views", I would be EMBARRASSED.  Or, I wouldn't be embarrassed knowing that I'm part of the "scheme".

We all know it.  We all see it.

From this perspective, the REASON we have topics with zero views is BECAUSE the owners/supervisors are TRYING to prevent all of the *FAKE* shenanigans.

 

As always, "it is what it is".  You can not tell me what I am allowed to "discuss".  I can not tell you what not to "like".

Carry On Wayward Son

You're drifting off-topic. Likes are a different matter, topic and profile views are generated automatically, but seems like the counter just stopped.

I'm a young woman, and not familiar with US country music from the sixties-seventies. 

34 minutes ago, EliraFriesnan said:

You're drifting off-topic.

Not really.  It is *ALL* tied together.

Good luck to the owners/supervisors.  They know all the "facts".

Junk In = Junk Out

Edited January 5Jan 5 by NotHereToPlayGames

46 minutes ago, EliraFriesnan said:

You're drifting off-topic. Likes are a different matter, topic and profile views are generated automatically, but seems like the counter just stopped.

Absolutely right. This is completely off-topic. That's why I called him "King of off-topics" long ago.

50 minutes ago, EliraFriesnan said:

I'm a young woman, and not familiar with US country music from the sixties-seventies. 

No one needs to know. One of his favourite citations. Even called me "Wayward Son" in the past. 

You LOVE it !!!  Look at YOUR "reputation" score and HOW YOU GOT IT !!!

Congratulations!  WELL DONE !!!

As our own moderators have stated.  No rules were being broken.

THE SYSTEM WAS GAMED.

Plain and simple.

Face reality.  Your "reputation" was FARMED (as D.Draker himself called it when OTHER people were doing it!)

You didn't break any rules.  Neither did the folks doing the "farming".  There is no "integrity" in your rep points.  Nor in D.Draker's points.  Nor in Dixel's points.

It's been a "game" going on for several years.  Even publicly bragged about and compared directly to one of our moderator's "rep" spanning 20yrs instead of 4yrs.

It's all just a "game".  And as much as it is not a broken rule to partake, I am breaking no rules in "discussing", it is, afterall, what makes the "social media" world go round.

Like a record baby round round round round

Again - 

Contratulations!  WELL DONE !!!

Edited January 5Jan 5 by NotHereToPlayGames

2 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

One of his favourite citations.

Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification!

@NotHereToPlayGames, I'm afraid you're wrong. There's no relation between likes and views. When I put several likes in one topic, to either one or different members, it was counted as one visit, the same would have happened if no likes were distributed at all. Clearer now?

2 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

As our own moderators have stated.  No rules were being broken.

THE SYSTEM WAS GAMED.

Plain and simple.

Please give links to that statement! I might have missed.

2 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Face reality.  Your "reputation" was FARMED

I have a rather low reputation. Please stay on topic, don't be jealous. We can ask the admins to transfer my rep to you, if you're that unhappy about it...

But views, I'm afraid, are not transferable.

I posted a screencap once of it happening.  Moderator did not like me posting the screencap.

REALITY is REALITY.

We have two or three people that will go back DEACDES, literally DECADES, to hunt down a post by one of THREE people *ALL* just to click a "like" and run those three people's "rep" points THROUGH THE ROOF.

Moderators are aware.  No rules were broken.  It is allowed.  I have three brothers and two sisters.  Maybe I should PAY them to all join MSFN and start "liking" all of MY posts?

But no!  The "gangsters" doing this would have ME banned!  I guaranteed it!  Even though all I did was what others have done!

REALITY is REALITY.

@NotHereToPlayGames Once again. This topic is about the counting of topic views. Nothing more, nothing less. Stop your off-topic babbling!  I am interested here to know what is going on with the number of views counted by the forum software. Your silly and childish behaviour is rather annoying and, what's more, simply embarrassing. 

1 minute ago, AstroSkipper said:

simply embarrassing. 

Not to me it isn't.

But yeah, I can agree that I've beaten this dead horse enough for one day.

DOES NOT MEAN I WILL NOT BEAT IT AGAIN DOWN THE ROAD.

I'm not breaking any forum rules.  

That's how "social media" sites work.  A lot of babbling.

4 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

That's how "social media" sites work.  A lot of babbling.

That's how you act. My posts are always factual and problem-oriented, as befits a scientist. Being on topic is very important to me. But when I see what's going on in your country, nothing surprises me anymore. 

3 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

But when I see what's going on in your country, nothing surprises me anymore. 

That's what it is like in a country that lives and dies by "free speech".

Call it a sociological experiment.  Wondering if I can be "banned" for 'off-topic free speech'.