Could you please check this? http://xenforo.com/community/threads/explain-this.63818/
It appears that it's not related to spiders nor visitors. Definitely there is something wrong in the way in how you're handling the thread views counter. This problem is present in many threads here at...
I reported this as a bug but Mike says it's ok: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/thread-views-counter-failing.63803
This doesn't happen in vBulletin. Definitely there is something wrong in the way in how XenForo handles the thread views counter.
I have noticed in many threads around all the forums here that sometimes the thread views counter for some threads is reporting a non reliable number compared to other similar threads. For example:
Possible new post notice bug
Posted: Nov 2, 2013
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