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August 10, 2010 12:24 pm  #1


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?

link: http://s06.flagcounter.com/more/y1JE/

Last edited by nametaken (August 10, 2010 12:36 pm)

 

August 10, 2010 3:28 pm  #2


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 http://s06.flagcounter.com/logs2/y1JE/1 shows that you've put your code on at least 5 different profiles at tagged.com


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August 10, 2010 4:32 pm  #3


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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August 10, 2010 9:29 pm  #4


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

 

August 11, 2010 2:19 am  #5


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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August 30, 2010 8:41 pm  #6


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 (http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/etT3/". The same thing is now happening with my new counter. I really don't know what to do, I really like the concept behind this thing but seems like there's no other option for me but to start paying for this and maybe then I'll be able to protect my counter.
Once again, thank you for your support, Jeremy.

Last edited by nametaken (August 30, 2010 8:42 pm)

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August 31, 2010 6:56 pm  #7


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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