Off topic: forum member count

brightblack · Post by **brightblack** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:13 am

Just a missive here; I noticed looking at the forum member list that out of 2582 members, 1826 have never posted. Some look like bot accounts, but I'm sure many are not. I was just surprised that people would take the time to register, and not post. I know any forum has a lot of 'one posters', people looking for help on a one off, but it seems strange to see so many zero posters.

Anyway. do not adjust your monitor, a more interesting topic will be along any minute.

JayPro · Post by **JayPro** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:06 am

I'll lay a bet that most of 'em are bot droppings; and the reason most of 'em read zero is prolly coz I zapped their first ones.

Ya gotta hand it to them, tho. They're persistent little sumb...'s

izblah · Post by **izblah** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:23 am

Because of phpBB's popularity, these boards get hammered by bots on a daily basis... Unless you put in some mods, you're pretty much guaranteed to have two to three bots register per day... I f*&%in' hate all forms of spam...

markofkane · Post by **markofkane** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:28 am

If I was told and had the power to ban bots, I would. But I don't think I have that power. So I delete spam posts when I can.

JayPro · Post by **JayPro** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:54 pm

Wih apologies to Mark, I should change I to We in my previous post in terms of who does the troll-zapping around here.

brightblack · Post by **brightblack** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:11 pm

I got the feeeling phpBB attracted bots; a phpBB based forum we ran a couple of years ago was tiny but still attracted plenty, so we moved it over to punBB when we restarted this year, and it pretty much stopped the bots.

Thanks to the mods who are nuking spam-posts. I hadn't thought that that would account for all those zero posts. Keep up that never ending battle.

markofkane · Post by **markofkane** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:51 pm

JayPro wrote:Wih apologies to Mark, I should change I to We in my previous post in terms of who does the troll-zapping around here.

No problem. I cannot be on all of the time, so it's nice to have fellow mods to pick up the slack.

izblah · Post by **izblah** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:25 am

By mods, I meant modifications, not moderators...

But, anywayz - if the mods wanna' read up on mods

and phpBB spam/bots: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=427852

but, you'd have to be a board admin to do anything effective with limiting these bot registrations...

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