[15:18:49] <naderman> anyone want to report http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29673 as a bug

Summary: Spiders and Bots appear to increment topic view count.
This is undesired, as it can skew the true count.

There is a patch provided by Igor in the above topic:
eviL3:

Open: viewtopic.php

Find:

if (isset($user->data['session_page']) && strpos($user->data['session_page'], '&t=' . $topic_id) === false)

Replace with:

if (isset($user->data['session_page']) && strpos($user->data['session_page'], '&t=' . $topic_id) === false && !$user->data['is_bot'])

:ugeek: