230 MEMBERS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS

[Value Buy]

Have been online here.

What amazes me is we had 2,364 "guests".

What would it take to get these guests to become members here?

Or are they all banned members who just lurk here?

[Jaguar]

Your really desperate for some posting buddies on here I take it.

[Jaguar]

Most read from work, they are too shy to sign up and be on the 'show'.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

You must be bored to be keeping up on the board stats.

There have always been lots of lurkers. Some are members of other ProBoards sites, and do a general search of other ProBoards forums to see if there's something that might be of interest to them.

It's a big (cyber) world out there. Millions are online at any given time.

We're just a dot on the radar.

A couple of thousand is a drop in the bucket.

[Value Buy]

Jun 24, 2014 22:51:20 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

You must be bored to be keeping up on the board stats.

There have always been lots of lurkers. Some are members of other ProBoards sites, and do a general search of other ProBoards forums to see if there's something that might be of interest to them.

It's a big (cyber) world out there. Millions are online at any given time.

We're just a dot on the radar.

A couple of thousand is a drop in the bucket.

Correct,

But 230 members and ten times as many visitors in 24 hours. I find that statistic interesting, and something we can work with to build our membership base.

I am not bored. From day one Moonbeam and Virgil commented how hard it is to build membership due to lack of a national/international audience that MSN had.

We have lost some longtime members who did a lot of posting here, and as we move on in life, we lose other members thru boredom or health issues. We do need to get some of these lurkers to join up!

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Since you're stating statistics, we're also heading into summer/camping/vacation season.

Seems we get more new members in the fall/winter, from past experience. Even the board in general has slowed down in the last week or two. People are out doing things now that the weather is more accepting.

In fall/winter, people are trapped indoors more and spending much more time online. Also, school season is winding down so people with kids are preoccupied with family than in the cooler seasons.

In the almost 4 yrs I've been here, this is a natural trend.

[Jaguar]

Value Buy

It's actually been 462 members on in the last 24 hours. Do you know that this Board is in the top 8 for top Boards, actually we are #7 .

support.proboards.com/thread/502038/largest-proboards-forums?page=1

[mmhmm]

Most of those "guests" are bots, Value Buy. Not all of them, mind you, but most of them. They're crawlers for the various search engines and sites like Amazon. There aren't even people associated with them.

[Jaguar]

What matters to proboards and how they come about what makes a successful board is amount of page views used. This Board goes through a ton of page views every month, meaning that many more ads are shown.

This board makes a lot of money for proboards.

If I'm wrong correct me please.

[Peace Of Mind]

Jun 24, 2014 22:27:00 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Have been online here.

What amazes me is we had 2,364 "guests".

What would it take to get these guests to become members here?

Or are they all banned members who just lurk here?

Except for unusual situations like the V5 change over from V4 hasn't it always been that way?  And the lurkers are bots?!  We are so interesting that even bots read us?  Cool.  

I remember Moon cleaning out posters who don't post and we got really down in our membership count.  1,300 or 1,400?  I just checked and we have 1,559 at this time so it has to be more than just bots reading.  I know how to find out! 

<<flashes boobs>> 

[Jaguar]

[Opti]

I'm not logged into the forum as much as I used to be. The majority

of my time is spent as a guest, especially when I work. So some of

the guests are probably members who aren't currently logged in and

are reading instead of posting.

[Virgil Showlion]

Jun 24, 2014 23:50:03 GMT -5 Jaguar said:

Value Buy

It's actually been 462 members on in the last 24 hours. Do you know that this Board is in the top 8 for top Boards, actually we are #7 .

support.proboards.com/thread/502038/largest-proboards-forums?page=1

They eliminated spaces and truncated the name of the "crapsters" board. I read it as "crap then amee".

Poor guys can't catch a break.

You also have to consider "hidden" members, VB. Include those and our board has on any given weekday: 290 active members + 16 staff

We've been holding at this mark for about a year now.

Most of those "guests" are bots, Value Buy. Not all of them, mind you, but most of them. They're crawlers for the various search engines and sites like Amazon. There aren't even people associated with them.

I would be very surprised if more than a few unique IPs belonged to bots. Each bot might index the board several times a day, but the pool of unique IPs would remain quite small. No more than a dozen. Our board simply isn't mainstream enough to warrant more content indexing.

Unless you know something we don't?

The built-in forum analytics don't include that kind of information. Did somebody ask one of the Proboards techs over on support about it? They would have better tools to classify guest IPs.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Jun 25, 2014 7:43:41 GMT -5 Opti said:

I'm not logged into the forum as much as I used to be. The majority

of my time is spent as a guest, especially when I work. So some of

the guests are probably members who aren't currently logged in and

are reading instead of posting.

I rarely log out during the day (work computer) and I rarely log on nights and weekends. 

[NancysSummerSip]

Jun 24, 2014 22:27:00 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Have been online here.

What amazes me is we had 2,364 "guests".

What would it take to get these guests to become members here?

Or are they all banned members who just lurk here?

Aw, Value Buy....those of us who are here still love you.

[Deleted]

Jun 25, 2014 7:55:46 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Most of those "guests" are bots, Value Buy. Not all of them, mind you, but most of them. They're crawlers for the various search engines and sites like Amazon. There aren't even people associated with them.

I would be very surprised if more than a few unique IPs belonged to bots. Each bot might index the board several times a day, but the pool of unique IPs would remain quite small. No more than a dozen. Our board simply isn't mainstream enough to warrant more content indexing.

Unless you know something we don't?

The built-in forum analytics don't include that kind of information. Did somebody ask one of the Proboards techs over on support about it? They would have better tools to classify guest IPs.

On "my" board, one that I run, I've seen sometimes where half or more of the "guests" are bots... some Google, some Bing, some Amazon. But other days there's no bots that show up... None.

So it could be a LOT of bots... or it could be a LOT of people... or it could be anywhere in between. Anything is possible.

[Jaguar]

90% of what I get is bots.

[Deleted]

Jun 25, 2014 0:25:41 GMT -5 Peace Of Mind said:

Jun 24, 2014 22:27:00 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Have been online here.

What amazes me is we had 2,364 "guests".

What would it take to get these guests to become members here?

Or are they all banned members who just lurk here?

Except for unusual situations like the V5 change over from V4 hasn't it always been that way?  And the lurkers are bots?!  We are so interesting that even bots read us?  Cool.  

I remember Moon cleaning out posters who don't post and we got really down in our membership count.  1,300 or 1,400?  I just checked and we have 1,559 at this time so it has to be more than just bots reading.  I know how to find out! 

<<flashes boobs>> 

LOL... naaah... if you wanna see if anyone is paying attention you have to show PICTURES of the boobies!

SPOILER: Click to show

[Jaguar]

Oh those are so cute.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

LOL - I always knew POM's boobies were perky.

[moon/Laura]

looking at the 114 guests online, the vast majority are from legit ISPs, so probably members who are browsing but not logged in. Others are probably legit guests checking us out. but there are also

12 Microsoft bots
9 google bots
2 yahoo bots
1 from hong kong - not sure if legit or what
1 from poland -not sure if legit or what
12 from a thailand spam source

[mmhmm]

I would be very surprised if more than a few unique IPs belonged to bots. Each bot might index the board several times a day, but the pool of unique IPs would remain quite small. No more than a dozen. Our board simply isn't mainstream enough to warrant more content indexing.

Run some of the IPs (first two sections are enough). It doesn't take long to figure it out.

[mmhmm]

Jun 25, 2014 20:11:26 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

Jun 25, 2014 7:55:46 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

I would be very surprised if more than a few unique IPs belonged to bots. Each bot might index the board several times a day, but the pool of unique IPs would remain quite small. No more than a dozen. Our board simply isn't mainstream enough to warrant more content indexing.

Unless you know something we don't?

The built-in forum analytics don't include that kind of information. Did somebody ask one of the Proboards techs over on support about it? They would have better tools to classify guest IPs.

On "my" board, one that I run, I've seen sometimes where half or more of the "guests" are bots... some Google, some Bing, some Amazon. But other days there's no bots that show up... None.

So it could be a LOT of bots... or it could be a LOT of people... or it could be anywhere in between. Anything is possible.

Yep. Some days there are more bots than peeps and some days it's the other way 'round.

[moon/Laura]

Jun 25, 2014 0:25:41 GMT -5 Peace Of Mind said:

I remember Moon cleaning out posters who don't post and we got really down in our membership count.

I actually need to do this again.

[Jaguar]

It's called purge the zeros

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Yes, I remember it was member's who hadn't posted in 6+ months or more who were purged (might have been a longer time-span but that's close, as I remember).

The membership #'s dropped a fair bit after that cleaning.

Considering other boards though, we have a fairly active & high number of members online/posting at any given time.

I was checking out the stats on another board earlier today and it was "0 Staff, O Members, 12 Guests" - no recent posts.

[wyouser]

speaking of bots, do we attract "HOT" BOTS OR JUST THE "COLD" ONES?   Hey , wait, what did I just say?   Its Friday...Pass me a "cold one" please!

[moon/Laura]

Jun 25, 2014 0:25:41 GMT -5 Peace Of Mind said:

I just checked and we have 1,559 at this time so it has to be more than just bots reading

I just got rid of about 100 who had no posts and hadn't signed in at all this year. I could easily get rid of that many more who have only one or two posts, I bet.

[Jaguar]

Yeah I don't understand making an account on a board but never again signing in.

[hoops902]

I'm guessing "guest" is board members who have signed out.  I'm betting that when I open the page each time it logs a "guest" visit until I log in, then it logs me as a member visit.  Then it probably counts member visits by distinct username, but guest visit without distinguishing the same guest (me) opening the page new 20 times per day prior to any logging in.