Some new members never post

[María José]

Originally Posted by 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.

Ok, I was not going to do it, but now I have to and it's all your fault: what are spiders and crawlers?

[Rusty]

They are computer programs, to make it easy, that visit site after site on the web looking for whatever they are programmed to look for and doing whatever they are designed to do when they find what they're looking for.
The search engines use them to build their search terms database. For example, they browse through all of our forum entries picking up key words and phrases that they think people would search for. These keywords are added to their database of search terms. That way, when someone googles 'Agree with Rusty', one of the hits they'll get will point them to one of Sosia's posts here in Tomísimo.
Some spiders and crawlers are designed for malevalent purposes, like spamming, hacking, and the spread of viruses and the like. They try to log on to sites like Tomísimo and post spam in the forums, or do other damage. David, and all web site designers, have to write programs, to make it easy again, that combat these kinds of attacks.

[María José]

Originally Posted by Rusty

They are computer programs, to make it easy, that visit site after site on the web looking for whatever they are programmed to look for and doing whatever they are designed to do when they find what they're looking for.
The search engines use them to build their search terms database. For example, they browse through all of our forum entries picking up key words and phrases that they think people would search for. These keywords are added to their database of search terms. That way, when someone googles 'Agree with Rusty', one of the hits they'll get will point them to one of Sosia's posts here in Tomísimo.
Some spiders and crawlers are designed for malevalent purposes, like spamming, hacking, and the spread of viruses and the like. They try to log on to sites like Tomísimo and post spam in the forums, or do other damage. David, and all web site designers, have to write programs, to make it easy again, that combat these kinds of attacks.

Thanks for explaining.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by Rusty

They are computer programs, to make it easy, that visit site after site on the web looking for whatever they are programmed to look for and doing whatever they are designed to do when they find what they're looking for.
The search engines use them to build their search terms database. For example, they browse through all of our forum entries picking up key words and phrases that they think people would search for. These keywords are added to their database of search terms. That way, when someone googles 'Agree with Rusty', one of the hits they'll get will point them to one of Sosia's posts here in Tomísimo.
Some spiders and crawlers are designed for malevalent purposes, like spamming, hacking, and the spread of viruses and the like. They try to log on to sites like Tomísimo and post spam in the forums, or do other damage. David, and all web site designers, have to write programs, to make it easy again, that combat these kinds of attacks.

I don't really understand the bolded part.

Great, now there's only 296 active members out of the total 887 -.-

[Rusty]

The bolded part means that if you go to google.com and type in the search "agree with rusty," one of the results returned (hits) from your search will turn out to be one of the posts where Sosia says 'Agree with Rusty'. Try it. Just now I tried it. The third hit that came up for me has a URL that starts with forums.tomisimo.org . If you click on that result, you'll see that an entry that Sosia wrote shows up.
The spiders and crawlers found the entry and dumped the important words into the search engine database.

[Tomisimo]

Jessica, try this google search, which is a search for "I don't really understand the bolded part", and the first result is your post from 9:17 this morning. That means that the Google search engine bot came and "indexed" your post. In other words it read your post and included it in the Google database so it can be searched from google.com. So after you post something the bots come and index it making it searchable in the search engines.

Or if you go to google and search for Some new members never come on, you'll get this thread as the first result.

[Jessica]

oh I get it. Is it bad? Is it bad for this to happen? Like if you get the results that lead to it? Is that bad?

[CrOtALiTo]

It's not bad Jessica, to the contrary is good it, because if you don't know about of a thread in specific, you only need write in the search engine of Google or Yahoo, the you need to know, then the search engine will finds the words wrote in the website of worldwide, it work of way very exact and fast, but if you don't understand ever this function of the search engine, I will you a example easier, for example, you imagine in the software of your computer inside of the Windows XP, you in windows has a tool named HELP, if you going the help tool, you can to find any solution above the system, but before you need to write something above the what you need to find, example, you write now, in the help tool, How I can uninstall Real Player, the engine search will find something above the process of uninstall of the same software or another same, and you ask, How does work it, well it's easy, in your system operative there are a data base kept inside of the hardisk or Windows XP or Vista either, then in your help engine work the same to way as Google or Yahoo, or either engine search, you only need imagine that search engines of in the internet there are Servers connected among themselves, it's a bit easier of explain in a post, you will need to study above Servers, but I can to tell you that the this website and any other website insider of the internet are inside or stored up in they own server, then each that you find something in the website, remember that website that you are using in that moment are connect among themselves around of worldwide, I hope you can to understand me, because I don't know how I can to explain you of a best way, I don't know another way.

[Jessica]

woah you wrote a lot! O.o my computer is Windows Vista.
ok, so it's O.K.? It's not bad? okie dokie

[CrOtALiTo]

But, Did you understand me? everything.

[Jessica]

Yes I understand

[CrOtALiTo]

Ok, pareja copiado, 340 ahorillese a la orilla, como dicen los de la policia en Mexico.

[Jessica]

what? sorry I don't understand that part, just the long text you wrote in English.

[CrOtALiTo]

What didn't you understand me? What part, please you must to tell me What part, you didn't understand me.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Ok, pareja copiado, 340 ahorillese a la orilla, como dicen los de la policia en Mexico.

This part (bolded). The underlined part is something do with the politics in Mexico...I THINK... >.< Hmmmm

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Ok, pareja copiado, 340 ahorillese a la orilla, como dicen los de la policia en Mexico.

Copy that partner - pull over to the side of the road - as Mexican police say.

[Jessica]

what does the 340 ahorillese mean?

[Jessica]

well anyways, now there's over 900 members, but barely 300 are active. O.O

[CrOtALiTo]

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.

[Tomisimo]

There have been a lot more users than that. I regularly go through and delete users who have been members for more than a year and have never posted and have never signed in again.