Cheating Question Views?
I know I brought this up a while back but in reference to people being able to cheat the points system and get Learning Points by skipping quickly through lessons.
I was on the answer forum when I refreshed the page and in the course of 5 seconds the views on someones question, whom will remain nameless, jumped from 15 to 98. Out of curiosity I looked to see if it is possible to just get massive amounts of views in a short time, and you can, by just clicking on the refresh button as fast as you can.
Now I know that someone who does this is only cheating themselves, but I just wanted to bring it to everyones attention.....
11 Answers
As you say, they are only cheating themselves. Who cares? If they have 50,000 points, it won't teach them one more word of Spanish or English and that will become apparent to everyone.
I find this hilarious...so what is that good for? So funny...to get a badge?
I am sure that must be a child ....I at least hope so
I hope so too. I almost find it sad that someone is so obsessed with getting badges and what not. It really doesn't affect the answers section much but I thought I might bring it up anyways....
I am glad you brought this up and I agree with you 100%.
My concern with that is of a different nature. I feel that some time I am helping or... better yet doing the homework of some people who need it for school.
I do not mind acting as editor and giving suggestions, but I feel it is a good practice to know how to do research, analyze the material and come up with the most correct answer.
The ATA American Translators Association allows open book testing just for the benefit that doing proper research is important.
Here's looking at you kid! (Bogart said it differently I know) Ah ,yes, Heidita, children come in different forms and numeric age is only one definition.
Well look at that! It works. I just gave you 10 more 'views'! 
You mean to tell me that I could ensure (to use the term loosely) that all my questions receive a 'Popular question' badge without having to bribe anyone? (Hhhmmm..., all the money I'll save... 
(Joking! So someone get's badges...)
¿Y qué?
I tried it, it works. Now if I can only figure out how to do that to something that really matters, like the balance of my checking account
Well, if any of your are familiar with Flickr.com, then you might know that there it only counts views from people other than the person who posted the photo...
....could that work here?
No operating system is perfect. I am sure the web creators do not want to spend money just to stop someone cheating themselves, however, thanks for the notice.
Would a way of blocking this be to simply not clock up a view when someone clicks on a question posted by themselves?
I don't think that this really matters. All you get is a badge.
A badge.
That's not very important. If you could get reputation by doing that, well, then I would say that you have a problem, since a certain amount of reputation gives you certain abilities on the site. But, we're just talking about a badge.
