Some new members never post

[CrOtALiTo]

Okis.

Copiado camarada.

[Jessica]

Yes, you are right, there are over 1000 user signed on in the website but barely less of 400 members signed on posting in the website.

Correction: Yes, you are right, there are over 900 users that are members of this website but barely 300 members are active and posting.

Crotalito, you've got the #s wrong, and you made some mistakes, but overall, I can see you're getting much better! :) Keep it up!

[Jessica]

oh sheesh! Now there's only 296 members active. There are 918 members, but barely 1/3 are active!

[Tomisimo]

oh sheesh! Now there's only 296 members active. There are 918 members, but barely 1/3 are active!
Yes, I know. Do you have any ideas to encourage more of them to be more active? :)

[CrOtALiTo]

I can to give my own opinion about the question, well I feel, we need to do more public poller inside of the forums so the new people and the people that ever is not sign on in the forums, they find more interest the website, I don't know perhaps, we need to more threads with more interest and well they only will get around to doing something in the forums, it only is my view point, David, you are the administrator of the website, but if my view point working you, well then it was good, I hope the members inactive in the forums soon, they sign on again.

[Tomisimo]

I don't know perhaps, we need to more threads with more interest ...
I'm working on something to that end..... *cryptic smile*

[CrOtALiTo]

Fine. You keep working on that.

[Jessica]

what do you mean you're working on something to that end?

[Tomisimo]

what do you mean you're working on something to that end?
I'm working on something to achieve that goal.

[Jessica]

oh ok. good luck achieving the goal :P

[CrOtALiTo]

He will has good luck achieving his goals.

[Jessica]

Correction: He will have good luck achieving his goals.
Only 1 error! :)
have is used before plural nouns. here the noun is goals.
has is used before singular nouns - He has only one hour to prepare for the test. The singular noun is hour.

[Rusty]

Actually, the direct object luck (not goals, which is a direct object in an adjectival phrase), has nothing to do with it. The reason the word have appears in this sentence is because the future tense is being used and that is the only choice, no matter the person.

[Jessica]

oh oops.... :P
well what do you know, more members but less active ones O.o let's see, anyone have any ideas on how to get more members to be more active?

[Jamie]

I think I'd fall into the category of people are registered, but don't post very often. Perhaps I should start coming to the website more often. :)

[Tomisimo]

I think I'd fall into the category of people are registered, but don't post very often. Perhaps I should start coming to the website more often. :)
Well, you're certainly welcome to do that if you like. :)

[Jessica]

why do I always feel scared when a spider or bot is looking a thread I'm making?? :eek:
also, how do you know if someone is a robot or not??

[Rusty]

A bot is a program that is written for a specific purpose. Most of the guests you see are probably bots. Many of them are making sure our web site is searchable. This is evidenced by their methodical searching through our posts.
Tomísimo has taken measures to safeguard its members from maliciously-designed programs. Most can't get past registration because of some of these measures. Those that do make it past registration are summarily banned so they can't post undesirable content or do other damage.

Remember that the 'good' bots are 'indexing' everything we write. That means they are making it possible for people to find our web site when they enter search terms that match the content of our posts.

This is why we should carefully word what we post. Our posts have the potential to be seen by billions of people.

[CrOtALiTo]

I have seen in the member list boths, but I believe, David must remove them forever, and so, David musts implement a method where the user must write a words in a blank such as the registers from Hotmail or Yahoo.

[Rusty]

David has implemented the feature you're talking about. It presents an image to the registrants and asks them to enter the characters they see in the image. This ensures that a human is registering.
However, there are humans that get paid to register on sites so that the account (member ID) can be used later on by bots. These users are banned once their true identity is made evident by their behavior in the forums.