Guest/Bots in Whos Online?

Yay! I was partially right.

That post bit isn't bare, that's just, bland!

 

I like stalking guests or bots, specifically guests to see if they register or not. :lol:

 

Me too!

The guests who stick around for hours at a time are the ones that register and don't ever posts. Ever. :doh:

 

Hey Tom, I've noticed that too. I think that's because they've left the site open in a tab or something - because as far as I know the usual refresh rate for the who's online list is set to 15 minutes on most sites. It's just like a waiting game.

 

It's more annoying when they sit there actually reading hundreds of posts and threads for hours at a time - and then never register! :p

 

Why not install the view restriction mod at vB.org? It uses a cookie to track how many threads the user can view before he or she has to register. You can set the variables yourself.

 

I'd rather not. Why? Well, if they only intend on viewing threads, then why would it be any different if they had a forum account? They'd just log in to read the posts without making any contributions. I don't see a non-poster being a much better alternative to a frequent visitor.

There are some plusses to it, such as you now have the member on your mailing list, they are more apt to eventually engage in discussion, among other things. But I don't see it to be worth putting guests through the hassle and frustration of having to register just to be able to view content. I'm a big opponent to doing that.

 

Certainly an interesting topic --

 

I let them show. I like to watch them.

A lot.

 

Hence the reason as to why managing forums with you is always a joy...

 

I love watching, too. I'm a Who's Online junkie - it's partially an illusion and partially because I really am sitting there watching what's going on. :p

 

You'll see me viewing "Who's Online?" every now and then - and no, it's not an illusion with me.

 

I always find it funny when you're viewing Who's Online and then suddenly someone else is. It's like you're looking at each other without saying anything.

 

When that happens, I tend to (quickly) leave.

 

Me too, Savage. It invokes an awkward feeling for a second. :p

 

Here's a list of my recent spiders that have visited. Lots of different interesting ones

The most guests online over 24 hours was 17,156, 04-29-2009 at 09:56 AM.
Visitors (1,576), MSNBot Spiders (11), Baidu Spiders (33), Radian6 FeedFetcher Spiders (7), Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (3), Radian6 Comment Reader Spiders (3), Google Wireless Transcoder Spiders (1), Artabus Spiders (1), Google FeedFetcher Spiders (6), Ask.com Spiders (7), Deepnet Explorer Spiders (1), Nutch Spiders (1), Windows RSS Platform 2.0 Spiders (2), Windows RSS Platform 1.0 Spiders (2), Google AdSense Spiders (2), Google Spiders (8), Rambler Spiders (1), MLBot Spiders (1), Sogou Spiders (1), Feed Parser Spiders (3), FeedBurner RSS Spiders (1), Yeti Spiders (1), vBSEO Spiders (1), dotnetdotcom.org Spiders (1), Alexa Spiders (1), ExaLead Beta Spiders (1), Magpie Spiders (1), Bloglines RSS Spiders (1), Giga Blast Spiders (1), Cuil Spider Spiders (1)

 

Didn't 'ya know, spiders love Disney. :p

 

I have never heard of the "Baidu" spider.

 

Who doesn't?

The "Baidu" spider is found only on the southern tip of my Who's Online box

 

The Baidu spider is a frequent spider at Bird is the Word.

I am assuming he likes Family Guy. :lol: