# How to give \*your\* special topic 10,000+ views.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 30, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822 "2000-12-30T20:22:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/1 "2000-12-30T20:22:53Z")

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```auto

while [1];do wget -O- http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=666;done

```

```auto

while [1];do kill `ps auwx | grep "wget -O-" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2} | xargs'`;done;

```

I take comfort in the fact that simply viewing a page a whole heck of a lot seems completely within board rules (and does not even require an account).  
People lacking the capability to run the above concurrent loops could, I suppose, post a link to a thread they’d like to mess with.  
Hm. could add exit condition. Add exactly 777 views or somesuch.  
Hail Eris. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/2 "2000-12-30T20:41:38Z")

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Hm. In retrospect, if your system has killall, that’s much easier… 🙂

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/3 "2000-12-30T20:44:32Z")

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huh?

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/4 "2000-12-30T21:17:52Z")

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“Huh?”  
Hmph. Fine, I’ll demonstrate on this thread…

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/5 "2000-12-30T21:22:04Z")

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My UNIX novice dark side tells me it might be a script to artificially generate multiple hits on any given thread here. I can’t quite see the point if this is the case, but who am I to argue?

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/6 "2000-12-30T21:25:36Z")

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Cool! Now you, too, can pretend that you have opened a hot thread, and all you have to do is tax the server holding the thread and deny all of your fellow members bandwidth!

Thanks, **K**!

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-give-your-special-topic-10-000-views/47822/7 "2000-12-30T21:33:38Z")

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Correct, however, since I kill the connection, very very little bandwidth is wasted. (no page download)  
Let’s not forget I am running this on a 33.6K connection. The amount of bandwidth I could ever tax will only be at a maximum that of an obsessive board reader. Bandwidth usage seemed to range between 800 bytes to 1.4 kilobytes per second. Trivial.  
All it does is mess with a stat in a simple fashion.

BTW, killall wget;sleep 1; was necessary for me, simply 'cause it takes a second to open a connection (again, may be due to my pathetic net access).