A great question and even better observation!!! Note: I had always wondered if I was the only one who noticed this!
Trending content is the forum content that's being most viewed by forum members and guests (traffic).
Unfortunately you are not missing anything. The trending content is accurate.
Obviously you've noticed the common dates of the "trending content", which has been mostly 2009 and some 2008. These results are generated from the AI bots, posing as "guests", that are scanning members profiles and forum content containing emails. The emails are just another manner for the AI bots to access the users profile. For some reason, these trending threads are scanned on constant repeat by the AI bots and therefore they show up as trending content.
All of the '09 threads (some '08) threads contain email addresses added by the forum user. As new threads get added to the list, I remove the email addresses from them and replace it with *********************. I do this so at a quick glance, I know that I have already edited the thread.
Most of the later forum content is free from email addresses. At some point, the staff adopted the policy of removing email addresses from public posts and signature lines.
This "trending thread" from today still has the emails listed. I will remove them later after you have had a chance to view it.
[EMBED content="thread-21876"]https://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/threads/review-select-finish.21876/[/EMBED]
Just another indicator and reminder that our forum is under constant attack from the AI assisted spammers.
