Statistics Manipulation - The Tricks Admins Play
 

I was searching the web today for something or other, and came across this vb forum that had a handful of posts, yet the stats had a max users online over 1200. I asked the question as to what his session timeout was, as that was the only thing I could think off that would manipulate such a figure for a site that showed 1 or 2 online. I got a reply... 9999999999999999999 as he didn't like to be logged out and also knew it would give him a big online at once number hoping it would entice new membership. Apparently it didn't work for him from my estimation.