Hello friends,

I just got a doubt that which thread was most viewed by the people.
I browsed through the Forums and here is the information i got:

First, lets start with
1. MySQL/PHP Forum
See where your last referrers that searched came from and have a link to it
jrobbio
gets the first place with 46,522 views!


2. PHP code Library:
Password Protect web pages/site using PHP and MySQL
JdS
gets the first Place with 10,131 views.


3.Here comes the main thing:
C Help/ C++ programming Forum:
Guess what got the most view?
A thread with no reply!
Merge sort on a linked list
Temujin_12 got the first place with 9,598 views!


4. C/C++ source code and tutorials:
Re: Conversion: Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal
WaltP got the first place with 27929 views.
Congrats Walt.


5. MS VC++ /MFC Forum:
How to convert int to string in MFC?
george got the first place with 9,789 views.


6. FLTK Forum:
[Tutorial] GUI programming with FLTK
dsmith got the first place with 9,275 views.


7. .NET forum:
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL
srinu_indian78 got the first place with 7,959 views.


8. Python and Java forums hasnt got off yet.
So, lets leave that alone.


Guess which thread got the most view?
The Hardware forum.
These posts:
CD Burner Help - Power Calibration Error....
JonBoy420
came first with 166,165 views.
Its the GID Forums Winner.

Missing system32\drivers\ntfs.sys
Impulse
came second with 81,944 views.
Its the GID Forums Runner up.

Power Calibration Error In Nero Fix (hopefully)
matt3678
came third with 39,469 views.


And, in the Open discussion Forum:
Chappelle's Show: Season 2 DVD Release?
00rish
came first with 16,204 views!

The sorry tale:
Sunday morning Humor
cable_guy_67 hasnt kicked off i think.
got only 1,642 views. Very sad!



Note that the forum links are sorted views. Dont forget to see them.
Hope you enjoyed this one.
The next posting will be about Maximum replies.

Regards,
Paramesh.

Any page with the word "referer" or "referrer" in it is subject to a lot of bogus views. Pages with either word in it attract a lot of "referer spam".

You should see my .htaccess file now, it's so full of rules to block (or limit) these kinds of "attacks".

Why does that happen?

Will it happen in this thread also? because you typed that words?

If you have free time, please explain me about .htaccess files.

Thank You,
Paramesh.

Why does it happen? Well, you can thank the search engines for that

Sometimes, when you visit a web site, you will notice a little table of links somewhere on the web page with a title like "Last Referrers" and a list of links to sites that have referred people to the site you're viewing. For example, go to girls-suck.net and you will notice a table like that towards the right, at the bottom of the page.

In the past, it was interesting (and innocent) information to share with your readers (if you're the webmaster). Once the "dark side" figured out that it was the easiest way to get a link back to their site off a web page, it quickly became a nuisance and recently, a major pain-in-the-you-know-where.

Nowadays, they probably have bots going through the search engine result pages for popular phrases including the word "referrers", they just add it all to a list and keep bombarding the web pages with fake referer URLs of sites they want to appear in these tables of links. Since it's usually all automated, they don't even care if the web page does not have a table of links that list the last referrers -which is what is happening here at GIDForums™.

Since I don't list the sites that have referred readers to this site, I don't really have to block these fake "hits" but I thought why allow them to waste my bandwidth! Besides, I was also interested to learn how to block these idiots -- it might come in handy for a different situation in the future and so I did.

And yes, this thread will be targeted as soon as it appears in the SERPs in the near future.

About the .htaccess file, I won't post it here but I will be happy to send it to you privately.

Thanks But it hasn't helped my wallet any...