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I am intrigued.

Just noticed how many "views" posts are getting. There's one I commented on, yesterday, it has apparently had 1755 "views", but only 3 replies in total incliuding the OP post.

I see we have 14 visitors in the last 5 minutes, as well as 5 members. Not complaining ! Just wondering how there are so many "views"

are we being taken over by spambots or any other flavour of "bot", rather than real people ? or are some of our visitors and members fitted with very fast fingers and a short attention span ?

and if there genuinely are that many people visiting, please do contribute, we'd love to hear from you (but we don't speak "bot" :rofl: )
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This forum uses phpBB. phpBB does not distinquish search engine crawlers from real people, so every time a search engine crawler finds a post, the view count is increased by one.

Now, a crawler will visit a post about once every 1 or 2 months, but there are many search engines out there, each having crawlers to find content.
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The fact the site was down for a few days probably also piqued interest for the search bots and crawlers. Changes in configuration could mean they see it as a "new" site and re-index everything.
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That should not affect views too much, given that crawlers visit sites on a schedule and index everything regardless of seen status anyway.
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I got it down to five really basic points:

1) The Internet is big - really big.

2) There are a lot of people on the Internet. Oodles of them.

3) Nobody needs to be a member to just view a post or thread.

4) Anything sexy, kinky, or porn-like attracts people like flies. Just look at the view count of any thread that concerns blow jobs (like the blow job trainer threads - SBBJ has > 88000 views, Phoenix BJ trainer just shy of 59000, while someone looking to use multiple software together gets a measly 727... do the math).

5) Bots, spiders, crawlers, and other beasties of the sort, just continue doing their job, plodding along mindlessly collecting data. Sort of like civil servants. :mrgreen:

C'est la vie! :hi:

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What do these robits want with us? Except for Software, or maybe DIY.
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Most of the guests are spambots btw, even though they cannot register, they are a bot that just searches the web for forum, visits the page, tries to register an acccount, tries to login, tries to go to a post and tries to post.

Note that even though registring may fail, the other steps are still executed, so view counter goes up.
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Would it be rude of me to say......members out number topics?
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Shannon SteelSlave wrote:Would it be rude of me to say......members out number topics?
Not really. It's a simple observation based on facts (as listed at the bottom of the main forum page).

There are three main reasons:

1) Not all members are very active. Some even join and never post once.
2) Some topics are more popular than others. Thus many members post in one thread, increasing the member to post ratio.
3) Some members are real blabbermouths (present company included, as evidenced by my post count... :hi: :facepalm: ).

Then there are all the threads (mostly hijacked ones) about exotic forms of ice, the impending hamster apocalypse, and of course, corsets. :mrgreen:

We're quite a bunch of merry lunatics here (pervy ones at that). :rofl:

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Any ghosts?
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Shannon SteelSlave wrote:Any ghosts?

They might like us, but the ropes, chains (apart from Jacob Marley), gags, tape just fall through and of course they won't benefit from Jenny :whip: :D You were warned about hijacks?
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JIMDINI wrote:
Shannon SteelSlave wrote:Any ghosts?

They might like us, but the ropes, chains (apart from Jacob Marley), gags, tape just fall through and of course they won't benefit from Jenny :whip: :D You were warned about hijacks?
wont benefit from Jenny? you trying to make yourself a ghost? :shock: i think everyone here could probably benefit from a lesson of how the sound barrier works. :wink: :whip:

if the rope and chains are falling off, then that must be why they came here in the first place, so they can get tips on how to make it stay nice and securely in place, along with all their limbs. :D
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JIMDINI wrote:apart from Jacob Marley
These guys?
Marley_and_Marley_chains.jpg
Well, Jacob and his brother do drag a lot of chains, as a symbol of their being prisoners of their past lives.

But in general, ghosts don't mess with me. I found an anti-proton thingie at the flea market and I ain't afraid to use it. :mrgreen:

You should see what that thing does on Sir C's zombie hamsters. :shock:

If there was a zombie PETA, they would be really, really mad at me. :rofl:

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PS: when it comes to thread hijacking, I'm a pro. 8)
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Who is this? What is your operating number? Don't make me send a squad up. Ok, we're gonna have company. LJ, I think the answer to your question comes down to people and bots being more curious than courageous. By my arithmetic, only 8.5% of members who sign up introduce themselves. One answer I was able to receive was that they did not wish to introduce, and preferred to keep it on the "down low".
I am trying my best to understand our robot friends, watching their browsing habits. Reading topics in every category, they do have kinky interests like us. Saw Bing composing a private message once. Since it was not a message to me, I can not say as I have the benefit of direct input, but I will keep you posted. Not sure what they are doing with this information, but if flying is for droids, they haven't been doing well at that either, so they spend a lot of time here, reading and reading. Maybe they should focus on not crashing jets.
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Shannon SteelSlave wrote:Saw Bing composing a private message once.
Bing has a thing with Ding (from the Dong family...).

Ring a bell? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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