Reply With Quoteha! Maybe a lot of folks aren't sure if they want to hang out with us or not?
So many lurkers! Or...bots?
I'm sure we've all noticed the 400+ guests on the forum.
Is it mostly crawlers/bot traffic? Or are people really just that shy?
Re: So many lurkers! Or...bots?
ha! Maybe a lot of folks aren't sure if they want to hang out with us or not?
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Re: So many lurkers! Or...bots?
Could it be members who aren't logged in?
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Re: So many lurkers! Or...bots?
I suspect that the 400 guests are web crawlers and people who followed links from search engines. Web crawlers use a range of IP addresses so that they will appear to be separate users to the board.
Ed
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Re: So many lurkers! Or...bots?
And why is it always around 400? If it gets too high then the server seems to jam up (500, 503 errors) and only start working again once the number drops down to about one or two hundred. I thought it was all those people get fed-up with waiting and going off to some other site instead. But who can say? Perhaps the server is valiantly battling evil bots and doesn't have time to let people onto the site?
Perhaps I am getting this confused with Pac-Man, the first and last video game I ever played.
Re: So many lurkers! Or...bots?
LOL You are cracking me up!Originally Posted by shayna
And why is it always around 400? If it gets too high then the server seems to jam up (500, 503 errors) and only start working again once the number drops down to about one or two hundred. I thought it was all those people get fed-up with waiting and going off to some other site instead. But who can say? Perhaps the server is valiantly battling evil bots and doesn't have time to let people onto the site?
Perhaps I am getting this confused with Pac-Man, the first and last video game I ever played.
Yeah, it does seem to hover around 400, doesn't it? It's odd that it's consistently around that number. I'm on a couple other forums and this seems to be an unusual ratio- but it's odd that it always seems to sit around that number.
EdG- that's what I suspected as well. I'm thinking a lot of crawlers. But is there something unique about LHC that means it gets crawled a lot more?
SandyBottom - I wonder, too. I know there are some odd things- like, I haven't been able to come onto the forums for a few years now unless I'm on a VPN (or cellular connection). Maybe there's something related?
baanoo- We're scaring them off with our weirdness!
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