Rage Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Check out the .png attached, 98 guests? either there's a lot of spiders or someone hot linked the board from a moderately successful website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board If you click on "Currently active users" from the board's front page, you can get a list of who's on. Lots of spiders.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board Sometimes the excessive number of "guests" shown on the boards is patently ludicrous, and Dan Simon has posted they're most likely from search-engine spiders. I was rather hoping he'd fix that with the software update. As is it's a useless feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board While I know exactly what "spiders" are in this context, I now have the image of a whole bunch of arachnids sitting at row after row of computers, surfing the web, their little eyes glinting in the light of the monitors... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board Sometimes the excessive number of "guests" shown on the boards is patently ludicrous' date=' and Dan Simon has posted they're most likely from search-engine spiders. I was rather hoping he'd fix that with the software update. As is it's a useless feature.[/quote'] What, exactly, is there to fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board Meth? Crack? Angel Dust? What are we using? I don't want to be the odd man out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board What' date=' exactly, is there to fix?[/quote'] "Dammit Jim, I'm a theater teacher, not a programmer!" I have no idea what search-engine spiders are, nor what if anything one can do about them. If it's impossible for the guy who hosts the Hero Games website to clear them out, so be it. If it would be possible but a lot of trouble, it probably isn't worth it. But if we're not getting a true snapshot of how many people actually frequent our community, what's gained by showing that number? Except maybe letting folks believe the site is more heavily trafficked than it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board "Dammit Jim, I'm a theater teacher, not a programmer!" I have no idea what search-engine spiders are, nor what if anything one can do about them. If it's impossible for the guy who hosts the Hero Games website to clear them out, so be it. If it would be possible but a lot of trouble, it probably isn't worth it. Search Engine Spiders look a lot like normal users, all they do is catalogue the site, report the link back and when you do a search (on Google for instance) the proper pages come up - how else do you think search engines get their data? They are useful, though there are tons of them. You could probably come up with some bit of code that removes them from the user count.. but, not really worth the effort. I suspect that the user count is part of the board software - which Dan doesn't program - and may not have an "off" option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmetahuman Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board Sometimes the excessive number of "guests" shown on the boards is patently ludicrous' date=' and Dan Simon has posted they're most likely from search-engine spiders. I was rather hoping he'd fix that with the software update. As is it's a useless feature.[/quote']If you look at the bottom of the Currently Active Users/Who's Online page, you'll see a dropdown menu where you can specify only members, only (non-spidery) guests, or only search bots. So the option's there, if you care enough to put in the little more effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Re: Woah, alot of users on this board If you look at the bottom of the Currently Active Users/Who's Online page' date=' you'll see a dropdown menu where you can specify only members, only (non-spidery) guests, or only search bots. So the option's there, if you care enough to put in the little more effort.[/quote'] Thank you! Will rep when the boards allow me to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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