"Popular threads right now"

[gne in prog]

I keep getting ancient threads showing up there. Usually I notice before I bump a thread from 2007, but is that settings on my end or the site's end?

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

This got me too. I responded to a thread from 2008, trying to be funny. Thankfully, @Derg was hella cool about it.

Now I check the dates before posting. This one says 3 hrs ago. So I'm good, I think.


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[Roger Roger]

Yeah, the necroposting is getting outta control.

 

[Deleted member 27505]

Concur. WTF, over?
It's not just that an old post shows up now and again. It seems every post showing up as "Popular Right Now" is ancient.
Can we blame bots?

 

[derg]

It's been turned off. Basically it looks at the statistic in a literal sense. Search engine traffic up to the minute, inbound visits, all without respect to freshness or whether or not the traffic is from registered users.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Damn you NEWSBOT!!!


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