No-one seems to understand why I complain as much as I do about the fallacy of maintaining a hit count.
Well, here's a perfect example. We have 9 users online. 2 are real, 6 are already logged as bots, the last one is... shock horror... a bot too.
Yup, that means that 77% of the users online when I just looked at not actual users. I don't think I've seen it go below 50% in the last few weeks (whenever I've been able to look)
Since we can't always keep an eye out for bots, and can't always keep the list up to date, seriously can't we just stop counting the number of online people yet? Or at the very least stop counting the records? (I still don't even want them shown to admins, to be honest, I'd rather just not track them)
Well, here's a perfect example. We have 9 users online. 2 are real, 6 are already logged as bots, the last one is... shock horror... a bot too.
Yup, that means that 77% of the users online when I just looked at not actual users. I don't think I've seen it go below 50% in the last few weeks (whenever I've been able to look)
Since we can't always keep an eye out for bots, and can't always keep the list up to date, seriously can't we just stop counting the number of online people yet? Or at the very least stop counting the records? (I still don't even want them shown to admins, to be honest, I'd rather just not track them)