- nametaken
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Should I trust my flag counter?
It's been acting weird since I created it about 8 months ago. On my first day it registered hundreds of visitors from Malaysia, Philippines and some other countries. I was like - ok, maybe it went crazy but it's gonna get back to normal. Such trend continued for a few months more and than it stopped.
Last night I noticed that it started happening again, this time it was crazier than ever, I was getting so many flags in such a short period of time, 1 new visitor every ~30 seconds and, of course, the great majority of them were coming from the third world countries (in the last 12 hours it has added around 300 visitors from Malaysia). I don't know why though, I don't live there, have no relatives from there, I don't listen to their natonal music (I put the counter on my last.fm profile page).
I just think that it's too odd to:
1. get so many visitors from the third world countries and,
2. get so many new visitors in a minute or so (as i'm writing this it's still counting)
Is there any reasonable explanation for this or should I just remove this counter and start again from scratch?
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Last edited by nametaken (August 10, 2010 12:36 pm)
- Jeremy
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Re: Should I trust my flag counter?
I enabled Flag Counter Pro on your counter temporarily to see what might be going on.
The log at shows that you've put your code on at least 5 different profiles at tagged.com
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- nametaken
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Re: Should I trust my flag counter?
Thank you so much for helping me solve this, Jeremy.
But I guess there's no way to stop anyone using my flag counter. I've put it only on my last.fm page but how can I assure you or anyone else that those profiles at tagged.com are not mine.
Is there anything I can do to prevent them from using my personal code?
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- Cherry
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Re: Should I trust my flag counter?
Someone's using your counter and spamming Tagged.com site (like most of big flag hunters do nowadays), maybe he wants you banned? I thought Tagged.com had disabled flagcounter on their site due to obsessive spam, guess not
- Jeremy
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Re: Should I trust my flag counter?
Cherry wrote:
I thought Tagged.com had disabled flagcounter on their site due to obsessive spam, guess not
Cherry,
You've said this before and I asked for details but didn't receive any. If this is true, I would like to investigate it, since we do not tolerate abuse of our service, and have not in any way been contacted by tagged.com
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- nametaken
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Re: Should I trust my flag counter?
Ok, I decided to stop using my previous counter (but as I can see it hasn't stop counting yet lol). I removed it from my last.fm profile two weeks ago and put another one instead (
Once again, thank you for your support, Jeremy.
Last edited by nametaken (August 30, 2010 8:42 pm)
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- zakur
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Re: Should I trust my flag counter?
Being a new flag counter, there is no reason to "steal" it: Just getting a new one is free.
Weird...
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