Why is the number of guests always greater than that of the active members?
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Masychefx2
Banned
cos they want it bad in the butt
hangbi92
Well-known member
really? why they have to work against us?
lol although i dont understand what u mean
I lurked for months before creating an account.
haha that may explain
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I think for someone with severe SA, creating a profile on a forum could be a huge scary step, even with the anonymity factor.
hangbi92
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They may be too shy to make accounts
I lurked here for some time because of that.
Come on guests, what's the worst that could happen? JOIN US!
maybe. But even a very super extremely extraordinary shy SAD boy like me can create an account and join this forum 'cause I know everyone here is same as me and they sympathize wiz me.
And i find it really fun chatting online and commenting on this forum.
So to anyone lurking outside who read this, feel free to join 'cause noone will do anything to you
Masychefx2
Banned
i lurked for a few days then made account it seemed weird place at first but then it was ok.
Anomaly
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WearyChild
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I think its mostly alot of them get refered to our topics from google searches and just want to read our ideas. I read tons of forums and it wasn't until I actually wanted to reply to one really badly that I was like grrr got to make an account.
hoddesdon
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I lurked for months before creating an account.
Also, after having created an account you may be checking whether there is anything interesting first before logging in.
awkwardamanda
Well-known member
Could be some people browsing in invisible mode too, although I have no idea how much that may account for.
DarkPhoenix
Well-known member
It kind of freaks me out how outnumbered registered users are to guests, so many lurkey eyes watching us...
LonelyWonders
Well-known member
Mabey sometimes its people who forgot to log in. Happens to me all the time -.-
hehe, I sometimes don't log in either, because I don't want to be 'pulled into the black hole of spw' (where time disappears magically and you end up answering posts for hours even though you just wanted to 'take a peek'...) I only log in if I really want to answer someone or check up on PMs etc.
But yeah I was surprised by the number too.. hmm? (never looked at it before really..)
I wonder if they also count 'robots' or 'spiders' crawling the nets - for example Google robot to index things, so they can be found by Google etc. When I was on another tinier forum, it was really funny - sometimes there were just a few people and more bots than people.. (Google, Yahoo, etc) But I don't know if these are counted here too, or not?
I sometimes read forums before joining too... One can sometimes lose track of all the forums and passwords etc. After joining some forums and not posting then, I kinda understand the people who just read too - though it would be nice if you'd join in and post something too, yeah!
Maybe they are also friends or relatives of people with sa or such, trying to figure out some things..
(where time disappears magically and you end up answering posts for hours even though you just wanted to 'take a peek'...) I only log in if I really want to answer someone or check up on PMs etc. But yeah I was surprised by the number too.. hmm? (never looked at it before really..)
I wonder if they also count 'robots' or 'spiders' crawling the nets - for example Google robot to index things, so they can be found by Google etc. When I was on another tinier forum, it was really funny - sometimes there were just a few people and more bots than people.. (Google, Yahoo, etc) But I don't know if these are counted here too, or not?
I sometimes read forums before joining too... One can sometimes lose track of all the forums and passwords etc. After joining some forums and not posting then, I kinda understand the people who just read too - though it would be nice if you'd join in and post something too, yeah!
Maybe they are also friends or relatives of people with sa or such, trying to figure out some things..
I would say bots are counted- in fact, I'm positive that when there were over 1,000 viewing about a year ago (the highest ever), almost all of them were bots. I sometimes make a habit of checking the "Who's online" page, and it tells you what everyone is viewing, including guests (I'm not sure if this is true for all registered members, maybe just mods), and that day (I was online at the time) they were all viewing the same thing, like the chatbox or something silly like that.
