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BigMark
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Lurkers

Post by BigMark » Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:18 pm

In total there are 15 users online :: 1 Registered, 0 Hidden and 14 Guests [ Administrator ] [ Moderator ]
Most users ever online was 83 on Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:37 pm
Registered Users: BigMark

C'mon lurkers, join up, clearly you're interested, I don't think there are any other boards out there like this, and frankly the more the merrier. I'm surprised to see there are that many people looking that haven't registered.

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kman
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Post by kman » Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:35 am

While I'm happy to see as many people as possible join, I'm not going to give the lurkers too hard of a time. I lurk myself on a few boards and understand how that goes - sometimes you're interested in the subject but you just don't have bandwidth available to join and be able to post all the time.

But if you're lurking on are on the fence, join up! The more, the merrier!

One other note about those numbers, BigMark. I just checked this morning and there is one registered user (me) and five guests online. The the five guests are almost all search engine robots indexing posts. One *might* be a human. So those numbers about who is online might be a little misleading.

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housil
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Post by housil » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:13 am

kman wrote: (...)
are almost all search engine robots indexing posts.
We had the same topic in our German forum before. So (to) many "guests" in the forum...
The Admin also explained that these are just searching robots, checking forums for email adresses, phone numbers etc for spaming them.
Therefore they recommend to replace the "@" from your adresse to a word like "at"

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MCIera
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Re: Lurkers

Post by MCIera » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:56 am

BigMark wrote:C'mon lurkers, join up, clearly you're interested,
I frequently just lurk rather than logging on. I usually just log on if I have something to post.

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Post by Demoncase » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:00 pm

I only post occasionally when I feel I have something genuine to add to the debate....I frequent too many boards where the threads are made up of 50 posts or so- 1 original point and 49 people saying one sentance variations on the theme of 'Me too!'.....

Lurk enough.
Make a point when I need to ;)
我在你的市场,窃取你的销售
Trans' from Chinese= "We are in your marketplace, stealing your sales"

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BigMark
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Post by BigMark » Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:29 pm

Wierd, I always wondered what the real chance of 15 other people being on at 4am was, I just figured maybe more EU visitors lurked then..

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Post by Demoncase » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:56 pm

BigMark wrote:Wierd, I always wondered what the real chance of 15 other people being on at 4am was, I just figured maybe more EU visitors lurked then..
Quite!....It's currently 9.55pm in Wolverhampton (twinned with Beiruit) ATM, and the clock is showing 3.56am.

Either way, I'd better get some shut eye :D
我在你的市场,窃取你的销售
Trans' from Chinese= "We are in your marketplace, stealing your sales"

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MCIera
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Post by MCIera » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:18 pm

4AM your time is 11AM for our friends in the Central European time zone.
BigMark wrote:Wierd, I always wondered what the real chance of 15 other people being on at 4am was, I just figured maybe more EU visitors lurked then..

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Post by dirtbag » Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:44 pm

Lurk.
Avid practitioner of the martial art: KLIK-PAO

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Post by C-rats » Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:24 am

Sounds like what I do at gun shows...... Lurk.
Everything tastes better with Tabasco

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