Case 1: a thread made a long time ago. For example this old thread Jan 2022 that no one should be viewing:
Acknowledging that I'm gonna die someday is impossible for me. I wish I could be immortal, and my loved ones as well. I'm depressed everyday thinking about death. I find it impossible to enjoy anything in life since everything I think about is death, wondering if happiness is important or not, since death will just kill it anyway. I wish I was born in the future where partial immortality will be possible. Living for 1000 years. Anyone else can relate?
When I first enter into the thread on page 1, I won't be able to see a "Users viewing this thread section".
I advance to page 2, scroll down again, now the "Users viewing this thread" has appeared and I see myself and 11 guests.
I return to page 1, and check again, myself and 19 guests.
In disbelief I go to the page 2 again, and check again, myself and 20 guests are viewing this thread.
Case 2: recent thread at the top of Lounge: tag a user that makes you feel good.
5 minutes ago:
I enter into this thread at page 1. Just me viewing thread.
Go to page 2. Me and 1 guest.
Go to page 3. Now me and 5 guests.
Go to page 4. Me and 11 guests or some higher number than 5.
Just now:
I enter into the thread again at page 1. Me and 27 guests.
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So what I think, is there must be some kind of bots following my activity and multiplying it. Maybe they are not bots but more like some kind of systems that have to come online every time a user is active in a thread, but in that case why would they be seen as guest users.-
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A 3rd case: views on my threads or any users threads, when I look at the list of my threads and look at the views, I feel like they're much too high for what the topic is. I think they are 3x or 4x or even 10x of what they actually are, perhaps because of "bot guests multiplying activity".