5 Active Members, 65 guests?

[Deleted member 42253]

Whats that about? Are we being monitored by the Vatican?

 

[Led Zeppelin]

It's not uncommon on this forum. I think that someone once said that some of the "guests" are actually bots but I don't know how many..

 

[Greg the Grouper]

Even when I initially joined, it was a slow server. There's a handful of dedicated posters with busy lives. On occasion, the place is used to host a debate, but that also leads to multiple members that only participate for one or two conversations.

 

[*SD*]

"Guests" are inclusive of both, people reading a thread (who aren't registered members) and bots. Not all bots are a problem, there are indexing bots and other useful ones. There will usually be an imbalance between registered users and guests, this is very normal.

 

[Deleted member 619]

It's pretty standard fayre for fora. Here's the current status of another:


ETA: I recall only one forum I was ever a member of that this wasn't the case, but that forum had >80K members, some 5K of whom were very, very active. I don't think the guest count exceeded the member count there at all.

Those were the days...

The Emperor's New Palace

Once upon a time, there was a club in a castle owned by a kindly old Emperor. It was big and unwieldy, and nothing worked properly on ...

www.hackenslash.co.uk

 

[*SD*]

Indeed, this is a silly thread. Considering a sufficient explanation has been provided by my self and Hakenslash, it is now locked since no further discussion is necessary. Not everything is new thread worthy @21st Demon Lord

 

[We are Borg]

Guests can be indexers, bots, rss feed etc as long as they play nice there welcome i think one bot is banned because it was hammering the server.