<div dir="ltr">Were you about to say 'is there any protection against gaming the counter system'?<div>Thats my guess what you were implying? ;)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Daniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielx386@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielx386@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I hope that there is protection from things like pingdon (I will let<br>
you work out what I am about to say)<br>
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On 9/13/13, Bryan Hadaway <<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I had always wondered the same thing and tried investigating how good it<br>
> was.<br>
><br>
> Generally speaking, it's actually just a click counter, not really a<br>
> download counter (which I don't know if that would even be possible without<br>
> intrusion or at all) because you can click to download, not actually<br>
> download and just refresh the page and the count goes up once. Trying a<br>
> second time does not work so I assume it records the IP address to try and<br>
> keep the numbers consistent and accurate.<br>
><br>
> Considering that a lot of ISPs automatically change their customers IP<br>
> addresses every so often, anytime they re-downloaded it would count again<br>
> if their IP had changed.<br>
><br>
> The download link isn't nofollowed so whether robots following the link<br>
> counts as yet another download count, not sure.<br>
><br>
> My guess would be that at least 80% of the recorded count for any given<br>
> theme accounts for real unique and separate people who genuinely downloaded<br>
> and tried the theme.<br>
><br>
> Then, if we got into what percentage of people from the download count are<br>
> actually still actively using the theme we'd probably quickly fall below<br>
> the 50% mark.<br>
><br>
> Anyways, please keep in mind that this is all merely anecdotal on my part.<br>
><br>
> Thanks, Bryan<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
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Regards,<br>
Daniel Fenn<br>
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