Some new members never post

[Jessica]

I've noticed that only about 316 members are active out of the total 877 (approx. sometimes it goes up) Some people just join and never come on.

[sosia]

It's the same everywhere, except schools

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, not all the new members or people sigh on in the website come on in inside of the website or posting something.

[Jessica]

and also a whole bunch of guests are looking at this website and don't seem to join right away. :P

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, you are right, a lot of people join to this website daily but they aren't sign on in right way.

[Elaina]

They're probably just "checking us out"!

[Jessica]

I don't know what you mean by "checking us out" but I could understand they are busy. However, sometimes they NEVER EVER come on, like they join today and then never come on. And I don't understand why the guests don't join right away. I guess they are making the decision whether or not to join.

[Rusty]

Most of the guests appearing in the list are machines (bots, spiders, and crawlers), not people. Actual people probably do check us out (while making the decision whether to join or not), though. That's how we all joined, right?
Some users register and never participate. Maybe they only registered for the sake of registering.
Some users register and never participate, but they do log on, search and read our posts.
Some users ask a question, but never check back to see what answers they receive.
Then there's the rest of us, ranging from sporadic users to quite active users of the forums.
Para gustos, los colores.

[Jessica]

bots, spiders and crawlers?? huh?

[Rusty]

They're computers, not people. The machines crawl through the internet looking for whatever they're programmed to look for. Some gather information for the major search engines (like Google and Yahoo). Others are machines that post spam on any site they can gain access to. Others are more malicious. We are glad that some are 'just looking' and can't log on.