Give me more pageviews!

[iago]

It's off now.

[Hitmen]

It would be more impressive if you lowered the view count, just to be a jerk. put those haxor skills to work!

[iago]

Haha, well, if I can get 4.2 billion views it might reset to 0!

Interesting note -- they block 'wget' based on user-agent, so if you wan to use wget you have to change it by doing -U "anything".

[iago]

So, I was trying to track down why programs were lacking up whenever I went to my home directory. "Maybe I'll just look for an odd file, like a broken pipe", I thought:

ron@ankh:~$ ls
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853        Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13297  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3414  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6714
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.1      Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13298  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3415  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6715
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10     Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13299  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3416  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6716
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.100    Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.133    Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3417  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6717
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.1000   Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.1330   Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3418  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6718
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10000  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13300  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3419  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6719
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10001  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13301  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.342   Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.672
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10002  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13302  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3420  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6720
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10003  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13303  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3421  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6721
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10004  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13304  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3422  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6722
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10005  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13305  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3423  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6723
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10006  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13306  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3424  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6724
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10007  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13307  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3425  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6725
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10008  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13308  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3426  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6726
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10009  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13309  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3427  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6727
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.1001   Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.1331   Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3428  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6728
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10010  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13310  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.3429  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.6729
Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.10011  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.13311  Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.343   Bride-of-Khaine-94290853.673
..................

ron@ankh:~$ ls | grep Bride-of-Khaine-94290853 | wc -l
14647

Oops.. I guess I got mine.

<edit> How long does it take to delete 14,647 copies of Kaleeko's Web page, you ask?

ron@ankh:~$ time rm Bride-of-Khaine-94290853*

real    1m16.503s

[Ender]

I'm surprised it doesn't cap how many times it counts a view from the same IP in a certain time period.

[iago]

Since views don't mean anything, I doubt it cares.

[BigAznDaddy]

I'm surprised it doesn't cap how many times it counts a view from the same IP in a certain time period.

It is kinda weird and suspicious if someone has a billion views and one comment.

[Kaleeko]

I'm surprised it doesn't cap how many times it counts a view from the same IP in a certain time period.

It is kinda weird and suspicious if someone has a billion views and one comment.

Yeah, that's a bit weird. But, since pageviews don't really mean anything, I'm not sure if dA would flip out over someone using a bot to give views, but it does look really suspicious.. Especially when all my other drawings only have about 50-100 views each.

[iago]

Especially when all my other drawings only have about 50-100 views each.

Ah, you want me to fix that, then?

[Quik]

Since it probably helps their statistics and gains them ad revenue, I doubt they care too much.