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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/16/2004 6:37:14 PM

jillwfsub4blkdom

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Leonidas,
Have You noticed that since You mentioned it the number of guests have gone down? Maybe it is just me but it seems it has.

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/17/2004 5:47:53 AM

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It's definately not a good thing when I can't tell if I'm a lurker or not. The functions here take a bit of getting used to. If I am, it isn't at all intentional and definately will correct the problem if someone would be willing to walk me through it.

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/17/2004 1:14:30 PM

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It's also quite possible that those "guests" are actually search engine crawlers, I logged into my board one day and almost had a fit at the number listed as "guests" then I got all excited.... till I looked in my admin panel and identified the googlebot These bots can crawl dozens of pages simultaneously and each page they crawl will register as a "user" thus giving a false impression. AOL users also tend to show up as mare than one person, but I haven't a clue why unless it's something to do with the Aohell proxy servers.

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/17/2004 7:46:47 PM

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That would be in the stats but not in the direct guest references. Wonder how long most people actually lurk around before bothering to post.

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/17/2004 8:28:14 PM

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Through my own research, only 5-6% of list/group/forum members will post at any one time.

(I was horribly sick with something for a week, and bored out of my brain, so I ran some statistics on some lists I was on)

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/18/2004 9:40:45 AM

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Then Collarme is doing better than the average because a quick glance at posts vs number of hits give an average of about 1 post for every 10 hits or 10%

or maybe we are just more 'vocal' about things

just my tuppence

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/18/2004 9:56:24 AM

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You ever click on the 27 users and 4 guest link? It tells you where everyone is and what they are doing. Kind of neet.

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/20/2004 5:02:12 AM

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probably considered a lurker cuz it takes me a long time to get through one thread before i decide "ok i dont know what they are talking about" and then dont post anything cuz it would sound like i didn't know what i was talking about.....like right now lol

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RE: Lurk Factor - 8/20/2004 6:29:54 AM

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haha...it's never stopped anyone else here before so why should it stop you. Feel free to post whatever/whenever you want just be prepared for someone to comment back with some equally confusing reply.

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