Come on, Guests!

shane · Post by **shane** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:53 pm

Let us know who you are! We have 4 guests on the board right now and I, for one, am dying to know who you are.

Shane

Angie · Post by **Angie** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:56 pm

YEA!!!!! We broke a site record today.....11 users online at once....thanks to our mystery guests, Shane....

shane · Post by **shane** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:00 pm

Angie wrote:YEA!!!!! We broke a site record today.....11 users online at once....thanks to our mystery guests, Shane....

Thank you, guests! Now, don't we give out special prizes for milestones like this; I think I've got a toaster or pony or something coming my way for the 1000th post. If you guests don't register and tell us who you are, you'll miss out on your prize!

C'mon!

Shane

Tracy Smothers Donnell · Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:16 pm

I on line.

phil · Post by **phil** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:10 pm

shane wrote: I think I've got a toaster or pony or something coming my way for the 1000th post.
Shane

Actually, Shane.. since it *was* a geek that first thought up the 1000 post prize thing.. we've decided it is going to be a virtual toaster.

mark · Post by **mark** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:26 pm

phil wrote:
shane wrote: I think I've got a toaster or pony or something coming my way for the 1000th post.
Shane
Actually, Shane.. since it *was* a geek that first thought up the 1000 post prize thing.. we've decided it is going to be a virtual toaster.

Is that like fake beer? Or decaf coffee?

shane · Post by **shane** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:46 pm

Guests: please register and let us know who you are. You don't have to type a word, enter an email address or answer anyone, but let us know who'd visiting, please. There are 4 of you on the board right now...

phil · Post by **phil** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:51 pm

Shane et al,

It's very possible that the guests are actually registered users that are logged in from another computer and don't even realize they are not logged in. It could also be simple things like google bots indexing the site.

phil · Post by **phil** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:53 pm

mark wrote:

Is that like fake beer? Or decaf coffee?[/quote]

It's more like free beer. Sounds great, but it doesn't really exist.

shane · Post by **shane** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:15 pm

phil wrote:Shane et al,

It's very possible that the guests are actually registered users that are logged in from another computer and don't even realize they are not logged in. It could also be simple things like google bots indexing the site.

Yeah, I know. But I also know there are people who've been checking out the board who, for whatever reason, don't want to register.

I guess bullying doesn't work. Think I'll just let'em be

Tiffany · Post by **Tiffany** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:06 pm

I've noticed there have been as many as 10 guests on at one time. Most users on at one time is up to 20 now! I wish there was a stat that said most "members" on at one time.

Post by **jnichel** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:19 pm

Many of the "Guests" are actually bots spidering the site for search engines.

Tiffany · Post by **Tiffany** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:26 pm

jnichel wrote:Many of the "Guests" are actually bots spidering the site for search engines.

Ok, that went right over my head.

melindam · Post by **melindam** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:27 pm

Tiffany wrote:
jnichel wrote:Many of the "Guests" are actually bots spidering the site for search engines.
Ok, that went right over my head.

Mine too! Please explain Oh mighty techno geek!

Post by **jnichel** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:43 pm

Search engines like Google have little programs 'crawling' (going from site to site) the web called 'bots'. The bots, grab a copy of all the content on the pages they visit, and report that data back to the search engines (spidering). The search engine then parses (sifts thru) that data, indexes it, and makes it available to the world.