Well, I have seen this in many forums:

Somebody goes to sleep (or to eat or to do something not related to the computer) and he leaves his computer alone.

The computer keeps refreshing the page so it appeals that he's always in the forum and he keeps refreshing the page...

Is that an add-on, virus, bug?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

Ok, thanks, I got it. Really useful...

that is cheating

Ehh.. That's not exactly cheating, that's a way to refresh your pages automatically.

i really don't see the point in constantly refreshing the page, if your not there, you might miss something interesting...

You may have 15 tabs open and it'll take time to refresh them all every some seconds...

dammit ive been found out
well thts if i actually used it for that reason
i used one with 30 tabs refreshing the same page and i got like 40,000 page views for a thread on another site in little under an hour

squee666 Wrote:dammit ive been found out
well thts if i actually used it for that reason
i used one with 30 tabs refreshing the same page and i got like 40,000 page views for a thread on another site in little under an hour

So you wasted an hour bumping a view count? Seems a bit pointless to me.

I mean, unless you're one of those "OMG POST/VIEWCOUNT LULZ" types, and you don't seem to quite fit that bill. But who knows.

nah i was having dinner st the time

and i was bored