Whole lot of guests

Gemberkoekje · Post by **Gemberkoekje** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:44 pm

I just saw this on the first page:
In total there are 50 users online :: 22 Registered, 6 Hidden and 22 Guests

22 guests! ain't that a bit much?

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:34 pm

not as many as 23

sometimes i check the forums at the library computers. since they don't have my preference for auto-login stored in a cookie there, i'm browsing the forums as a guest. that's probably the case with other people.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:38 pm

Bah!

Most users ever online was 436 on Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:47 pm

If I remember correctly, there at least 300 guests at that time.

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:05 am

What's the problem with having guests? Regularly I browse through forums as guest and login only if I want to post something or to check my PM's. I never use the auto login function cause it can be abused.

Gemberkoekje · Post by **Gemberkoekje** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:45 am

Not stating that there is anything wrong with it - just wondering if all those guests don't abuse the system somewhat...

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:11 pm

what is there to abuse? it's only a froum

not like they can post.

Pwolf

aznfs · Post by **aznfs** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:05 pm

Pwolf wrote:what is there to abuse? it's only a froum not like they can post.

Pwolf

they become members to start abusing posts

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:42 pm

Pwolf wrote:what is there to abuse? it's only a froum not like they can post.

Not that there is any great reason for doing this, but if you wanted to skew the amount of attention a given thread or a given video got (for those people who look at things because everyone else seems to be looking too) all you would have to do is be a guest and keep hitting the refresh button on a given page until it looks like "everybody must be looking at this, I, as a folower with no mind of my own, must also look."

I'm not sure about videos though, are there any stats for just page loads on the video pages?

paizuri · Post by **paizuri** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:31 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Pwolf wrote:what is there to abuse? it's only a froum not like they can post.
Not that there is any great reason for doing this, but if you wanted to skew the amount of attention a given thread or a given video got (for those people who look at things because everyone else seems to be looking too) all you would have to do is be a guest and keep hitting the refresh button on a given page until it looks like "everybody must be looking at this, I, as a folower with no mind of my own, must also look."

I'm not sure about videos though, are there any stats for just page loads on the video pages?

You can't bump a forum thread by merely reading it. As for video link hits, who cares?