Who's Online Timer

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  1. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    What is your set at? I've read that some people extend the time to make the site appear more active (not to anything extreme though) and therefore entice guests to register.

    Mine are all set at 15 minutes. What about you?
     
    Nick, Jun 23, 2009
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  2. Soliloquy

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    Never heard of that practice... mine's set at the default.
     
    Soliloquy, Jun 24, 2009
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  3. Chris

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    Mine are (and always have been) set at 15 minutes, as well. I've never felt the need to change this. ;)
     
    Chris, Jun 24, 2009
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  4. Abomination

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    default of 15 minutes.

    I've seen some sites set at 3hours to make themselves look busier than they really were.
     
    Abomination, Jun 24, 2009
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  5. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

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    Default! 15 mins.
     
    FullMetalBabe, Jun 24, 2009
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  6. Tom

    Tom Regular Member

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    Bird is the Word is default as is Setsou Design...

    Like Chris, I have never really felt the need to change it.
     
    Tom, Jun 24, 2009
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    I am using default since I do not see any reason for changing it.
     
    John, Jun 24, 2009
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  8. kev

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    Mine is default - 15 minutes
     
    kev, Jun 24, 2009
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  9. Vekseid

    Vekseid Regular Member

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    I've used an hour for some time now. I feel more is cheating.

    I have seen one forum that set it to several months. Then saw people asking how their forum was so active >_>
     
    Vekseid, Jun 25, 2009
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  10. Tyler

    Tyler The Badministrator

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    I use 15 minutes. Making it longer to appear more active is interesting.
     
    Tyler, Jun 26, 2009
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  11. OneUpDave

    OneUpDave Guest

    What?!? I'm sure their database probably cries with every index page view.

    Anyway, most of mine are anywhere from 10-15 minutes.
     
    OneUpDave, Jun 26, 2009
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  12. gnatster

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    I set it at one hour. mostly to appease the person that handles the sites library. He kept getting timed out when editing long articles when it was 15 min.
     
    gnatster, Jun 26, 2009
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  13. Imperial

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    15 minutes, although I've had members who wanted to deliberately extend the timer to 20 to 30 minutes to make it appear more active. I don't see any reason to make the timer longer. Its deceptive for starters... but more importantly you may continue to see users who have been offline for 20 minutes and that isn't terribly useful for anyone.
     
    Imperial, Jun 26, 2009
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  14. tryfuhl

    tryfuhl Champion

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    30 minutes, it just works well that way for us. Our main competition was doing it and it was brought up as a comparison between the two sites as far as activity. Set it to 30 minutes and never looked back. 30 minutes is hardly deceptive if 15 is not.
     
    tryfuhl, Jun 27, 2009
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  15. Vekseid

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    Not really, it's an insanely tiny forum. It doesn't really fool too many, I think.
     
    Vekseid, Jun 28, 2009
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  16. greatlogix

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    I use 15 minutes. Beyond 15 minutes limit, everything is scam
     
    greatlogix, Jun 29, 2009
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