118supercars wrote:

OK, I have been seeing a lot of these ever since I started my FC and thought I should speak up about it.

FlagCounter is so great, but if there is anything that could possibly ruin it for me, it is these little kids (under 16 y/o) cheating and adding thousands of flags to their FC without actual visitor.  I mean people with FC that look like:

Anyone with 10000+ flags from Federated States of Micronesia or any other small island country
Anyone who has a # of flags that is a good chunk of a country's population.  Even 1% is questionable
Anyone with over 1 million visitors from any country is sketchy at best.  Especially if it is on some hobby page or Last.fm.  Only commercial website like Google could get so many flags
Anyone with more flags from a less populated island country with limited internet access compared to a decent sized European country, ie Serbia or Slovakia.  The ranking of flags should be similar to that of the main FlagCounter (the one on this website) but with native language speaking countries at the top.  If it is something like Jamaica or FSM in the top 10, it is obviously a fake
Basically anyone who use proxy or similar method to add flags to their FC is what I am saying.

I understand things like banning sketchy FlagCounter's or making an age limit is very hard and improbable for the admins to do, but I just wanted to see if anyone agrees with me.  And does it not take the fun and challenge out of collecting, if you add them yourself?  I am proud to say I got all my flags legitimately and lots of respect from me to anyone who did the same, and no respect from me to cheaters 

visited from ohio nice site at last fm i agree with you too

jimctu wrote:

Since its not specified how you should use the flagcounter, is up to each one to chose on which page it will put the counter...
but, I don't think is a cheat. My counter as an example (I don't have so much flags, but is ok)...all my visits come from internet forums =)
I don't have a webpage to keep track of my visitors...just collect flags for fun ^^
and as I payed for it, I should use it the way as I think it suits me =)

Well, I looked at your FC and it looks legitimate to me, no problems.  I think putting an FC on an internet forum, or as a signature, is a clever trick, but one that is fair and I respect

My disrespect is for people who use proxy to add thousands of flags they otherwise couldn't get

Yup, forums and playing Pets on Tagged.

Last edited by holland25h (August 20, 2011 6:25 am)

your counter, your fun, your way how to use it +1


Simple. ;)

Last edited by Rm (August 20, 2011 2:54 pm)