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What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:52 pm
by lutherjw
If I remember correctly, before the forum was updated there were about 9000 members. At a quick glance, I noticed that there were now about 6000 members...
Did we lose some in the upgrade process? Or were there that many spam bots?
Joel
Re: What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:09 pm
by TheMailman
I guess it was a portion of inactive accounts.
TheMailman
Re: What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:11 pm
by James
If they were bots, which I resume they were, it is scary to imagine that one third of our members were spam bots!
Re: What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:53 pm
by Chrissy
I would have to agree with TheMailman, they probably were inactive members since there were many who registered but haven't ever posted.
If they are bots....
thats all i have to say
Chrissy
Re: What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:58 pm
by James
You're probably right. (BTW: Congrats on your 2900th post, Chrissy!)
Does anyone know who the other bots that are online are? There's a Yahoo one as well as others,
James
Re: What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:22 pm
by lutherjw
James: The Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. ones?
They're search bots, or web crawlers. Search engines create bots to gather information from new pages added to websites, and they periodically browse the Internet to add things to their respective search engines. That's the best I can describe it.
Joel
Re: What happened to the other three thousand members?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:32 pm
by James
Oh okay.. Thanks Joel!