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Happy Jack
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As of five minutes ago I had 10,979 Active Posts on My Profile (fair enough) which showed up under my avatar as 7525 Posts (fair enough, I'm guessing that excludes posts in Off Topic etc.), but also I had 5159 Profile Views.

Huh?

In 7.5 years on Basschat I've averaged nearly 1500 posts per year (nearly 30 per week) but I've also had my profile viewed nearly 700 times a year (nearly 15 per week) throughout?

That seems like a ridiculously high number.

Is there some function of the algorithm that has escaped me?

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They're unique visits to your profile page.

Some of them will be from curious readers and some of them will be where people have PM'd you and hit your profile page in doing so.

Obviously, a small percentage will be axe murderers looking for their next target.

Nothing to worry about. :)

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[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415025519' post='2595755']
... some of them will be where people have PM'd you and hit your profile page in doing so.

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Now [i][b]that's[/b][/i] something I never knew ... every time someone sends me a PM then they automatically hit my Profile page?

That would be the "function of an algorithm" referred to earlier then.

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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1415027642' post='2595809']


Now [i][b]that's[/b][/i] something I never knew ... every time someone sends me a PM then they automatically hit my Profile page?

That would be the "function of an algorithm" referred to earlier then.
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Not every time.
It depends where you are on the site when attempting to send a PM.

On some parts of the site, hovering your mouse pointer over the username will give an option to send a PM, other parts of the site don't.

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