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.

[Planet hopper]

I've seen that our map detects connections from China only through the site of the great China firewall in beijing, a censorship firm owned by Jiang Ze Min's son, built as a mega-proxy for the whole country. That does not happen on other sites with mainland china users, where you can see the province and/or town.

I'm going over the firewall soon, I hope I can read and post from there



PS: Why don't we discuss ways to bring in more registrations? May be a poll? I can also think of an specific section for that, just like a sandbox where newcomers can play and have fun

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by 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.

wow so weird! Today I looked at the active users and most were guests but I found 2 that were...spiders.
Yahoo! Slurp Spider
MSNBot Spider

They're going to be gone soon but just saying......it's just......weird. For me. :P o.O
There will also be more....I guess, because I checked again and there was another one...
Google AdSense Spider

[Rusty]

I believe most of those designated as a guest are also machines. If you watch their behavior, you'll see that they are methodically (sometimes alphabetically) searching and trying all possible input on each page presented.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes I could to see new users and they never post in this website, later I see them in online but they only are sign on but they intention is give us website of their interest, but I believe that David cans remove these guess or user, if he put a register more strict inside of the website, a lot people that does not post anything interest inside the website, they can't logo on in the website or sign on.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes I could to see new users and they never post in this website, later I see them in online but they only are sign on but they intention is give us website of their interest, but I believe that David cans remove these guess or user, if he put a register more strict inside of the website, a lot people that does not post anything interest inside the website, they can't logo on in the website or sign on.

Yes, I could see new users and they never post in this website. Later, I see that they're online, but they are only signed in. They intend to join because of their interest, but I believe that David can remove these guests or users, if he puts a more stricter registration. A lot of people do not post anything interesting in this website, and they shouldn't log in or sign in this website.



Corrections above I'm not sure if the revised version is what you meant, Crotalito.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Planet hopper

I'm going over the firewall soon, I hope I can read and post from there

If you can't, you can always use a proxy.

[Jessica]

what is a proxy??

[Tomisimo]

It's a server the receives requests and forwards them on behalf of the requester.

[Jessica]

hmmmmm I still don't really understand sorry :P
o well

[María José]

Originally Posted by jchen

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

Maybe we are too weird for their liking. Or too clever and they feel intimidated.Or perhaps Sosia's devil makes them think we're into the occult.