I’ve recently had to artificially inflate the user count and online users for a vBulletin forum. Luckily, I found an excellent plugin which does just this. Not only does it increase the counts for online members and guests, but it also lists real usernames.

It is implemented by grabbing the existing member names from the database and appending them to user list at the bottom of the forum home. This plugin is very ingenius and pretty believable – good if you are starting up a new vBulletin powered forum board.

Link to download the Fake User plugin. Note that you will need a vBulletin.org account and a valid vBulletin license to download this plugin.