I see at the moment there are 17 members.....

AZ Jim

AZ Jim

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online and 425 guests. I wonder how many of the guests ever join up and become members??
 

Sometimes we seem to get a lot of people joining..introducing themselves to us..we welcome them , then that's the last we see of them,,..I always wonder why they don't stay around...it's a shame!!
 
And then there's the "invisible" member, yes? So, we don't know how many members are really on here at any one time.
 
hollydolly said:
Sometimes we seem to get a lot of people joining..introducing themselves to us..we welcome them , then that's the last we see of them,,..I always wonder why they don't stay around...it's a shame!!
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I've always wondered about that. If I'm going to go through the trouble of registering and introducing myself... I'm certainly going to post. Perhaps they just don't like us?
 
I think that there is something called a "BOT"...... these are programs that troll forums looking for things... although I can't for the life of me figure out what... anyway, I am told that these "bots" can show up as guests... So.. I think we don't have as many humanoid guests as we think we do..
 
QuickSilver said:
I think that there is something called a "BOT"...... these are programs that troll forums looking for things... although I can't for the life of me figure out what... anyway, I am told that these "bots" can show up as guests... So.. I think we don't have as many humanoid guests as we think we do..
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Can't remember if this forum had it when I signed up but if it has one of those boxes where you have to type what numbers/letters you see, then only humans can register. Or very smart animals.
 
hollydolly said:
Sometimes we seem to get a lot of people joining..introducing themselves to us..we welcome them , then that's the last we see of them,,..I always wonder why they don't stay around...it's a shame!!
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Which is exactly why I rarely go to the new members section and say anything. I'll see if they're really going to become a member or a drive by. :(
 
Although we don't want to put people off by being too assertive [that they should post comments.] Perhaps they would like to get 'the lie of the land' as it were, by lurking for a while.
 
oakapple said:
Although we don't want to put people off by being too assertive [that they should post comments.] Perhaps they would like to get 'the lie of the land' as it were, by lurking for a while.
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I prefer people do that. Then they have enough insight to be familiar with the players and what goes on before leaping in totally ignorant as to what we're about.
 
AZ Jim said:
online and 425 guests. I wonder how many of the guests ever join up and become members??
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A lot of guests just peek in a read a few posts from different posters, I use to be a member of 6 forums then I find out in some of those its the same old stories with the same old topic, eventually you get tired of it. Im down to 3 forums now and have a life.
 
The majority of guests found this forum by Googling specific information such as "cenegenics" other than "senior forums", they may not even realize they were on a discussion forum, they read the thread like a regular web page and leave.

- Copied from an old thread on this topic.
 
Matrix said:
The majority of guests found this forum by Googling specific information such as "cenegenics" other than "senior forums", they may not even realize they were on a discussion forum, they read the thread like a regular web page and leave.

- Copied from an old thread on this topic.
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That certainly explains a lot. I kept sitting here wondering why these hundreds of strangers were following our threads. Now I see they're not.
 
I'm not an invisible member. I'm not the biggest poster. And usually I'm not on the forum all week when I work. I'm very glad to have found this forum though.
 

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