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goraman
12-06-2011, 04:40
A lot of times at the bottom of the page I'll see 1 member goraman and 12 guests.

You guys are missing so much pictures,the banter ect...
There is always a large number of guests and I would like to welcome you to join us! Come on guys it is easy and then you have total access and it's free!
So why not?
Sign up and say Hi, show us a snappy of your gear,tell us what your into (GO ON!)
Thanks for hanging out with us! (right now there are 6 members and 60 guests) Lets at least make it 12 members 6 out of 60 is not a huge request...
New members keep this forum an exciting place to visit.

Alex_UK
12-06-2011, 08:33
Great idea Jeff - and I'd agree wholeheartedly - so people, don't be shy, come on in - the water's lovely! :)

Beechwoods
12-06-2011, 08:43
No skinny dipping though...

... oh go on then!

Great post Jeff!

goraman
13-06-2011, 12:31
24 members 84 guests! 6/13/11 5:30 am

Marco
13-06-2011, 12:43
Such is the nature of Internet forums, Jeff. With few exceptions, there will generally always be more 'lurkers' than members on-line at any one time, particularly on a UK-based forum in the early hours of the morning in the UK.

'Guests', search bots aside, are just simply non-members who are browsing the forum from all over the world, at any one time. You can't suck 'em all in! ;)

Marco.

Mark Grant
13-06-2011, 13:41
Many of the 'guests' will probably be search bots/spiders such as google that are indexing the site.

On an ecommerce site they show up as 'spiders' usually.

On my site there are 6 at the moment:

Host: msnbot-157-56-2-17.search.msn.com

Host: b3091229.crawl.yahoo.net

Host: spider46.yandex.ru

Host: 119.63.196.23 Baiduspider/2.0;

Host: crawl-66-249-66-7.googlebot.com

Host: host-62-24-252-133.as13285.net TalkTalk Virus Alerts Scanning Engine

As well as the occasional hacking bots that try to log in etc :)

Not sure where you can check in Vbulletin though.

Beechwoods
13-06-2011, 13:56
We can tell the 'Bots' from other traffic... 8 bots of around 70 'guests' in total at the mo... If I remember rightly bots are excluded from the 'Most Active Users Ever' stat.