Do all fansites fake their statistics?

Although this is the only fansite I regularly visit I saw Habbo updated their fansite list. I went on some of these pages and noticed that some fake their statistics, especially plug-ins such as "Top daily posters" "Members online". Of course, I understand why - the more active you look, the better you look. I have counted through some of Habbox's statistics and don't see any irregularities.


http://i.imgur.com/JTywTiz.png



So - it says they have 143 members on but there are only 93 names there.

I looked on vBulletin and found plug ins that can do this:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=252753

I was just wondering, if all fansites fake their members?

I won't name this fansite, although some might recognise it, just to show you what I mean.

I think it's quite common. For example, I've seen evidence before that shows that some fansites fake their radio stats and we are actually beating them even though the numbers make it look like they're hugely in front. As far as I know, Habbox has never resorted to this.

There's also hidden members you can't see as well as spiders from search engines.

When I was Site Manager at HabbCrazy we faked them then, but i disabled them, they they enabled them for up to 80 hours or something similar, so past 3-4 days

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Originally Posted by Kieran

There's also hidden members you can't see as well as spiders from search engines.

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Go on the site at any time of the day and there will always be +50. Never 49, never 27. Always 50. It's definitely a plugin.

That's cause there is 50 online at the moment. You just can't see them all where as I can.

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Originally Posted by Kieran

That's cause there is 50 online at the moment. You just can't see them all where as I can.

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I'm not on about Habbox.

While i think using plugins to make your site appear more popular is quite dumb, there's nothing in the rules for official fansites that says that it isn't allowed.

Shouldn't be a rule, its easy enough to notice. If a site can lie about that, what else could they be lying about :o

Everyone knows there are a few fansites out there that are well known for their fake stats, not just with forums but with the radio's also

like for example 'Stream is up at 128 kbps with 41 of 2013 listeners (35 unique)'. its not as bad at this site as it usually i, but still.

There is a plugin for everything these days on VB or MyBB which will hide truth from any site.