This place is jumpin'

Can we hit 5000 ?

Well that's a surprise.

I thought there were maybe a couple 100 or so. I had no idea there were over 4K folks looking. I wonder if that number represents actual people or if it includes bots?

Greg

GregGleason said:

Well that's a surprise.

I thought there were maybe a couple 100 or so. I had no idea there were over 4K folks looking. I wonder if that number represents actual people or if it includes bots?

Greg

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I wonder that too. Maybe something our Admin could report on without alot of effort ?

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Can we hit 5000 ?

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Call my cynical but I am not buying it! Although lately, the response of the site feels like it has 5000 users online.

100 or so members online seems realistic. 4500 lurkers? I"m not buying into that, or at least not them being living entities. Agreed, the site has been slow today, however.

Yet another glitch.

Screwy. 5000 would be over half of all the serious rocketeers in the USA (NAR membership 6000, Tripoli quite a bit less). Something is whacked here.

Might explain the sluggishness of the site today???

Bots and crawlers from search engines...

DRAGON64 said:

Bots and crawlers from search engines...

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Aw man. Bots 'n crawlers 'n bears, OH MY! Quick, somebody hide the Illudium-36 Space Modulator formula before the bad guys get it !

I think the active members tally is basically everybody who ever created an account since the crash ~5 years ago, and who haven't been banned or otherwise discontinued...

This has the fingerprints of the Thirsty Barbarian written all over it. :y:

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Tonight, it's about 150. Remember how some folks were "commenting" about ads on this forum? It's fairly easy (esp. if you have a copy of the forum software) to write bots that visit a web page and click on ads. Just a thought...

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It's fairly easy (esp. if you have a copy of the forum software) to write bots that visit a web page and click on ads. Just a thought...

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I would think that this is what is happening, but what would this accomplish? disruption between the ad company and the forum?

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I would think that this is what is happening, but what would this accomplish? disruption between the ad company and the forum?

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Yes, to what end ? Maybe a homework/training assignment at Dr. Evil's Hackers Academy ?!? BTW, back to a couple hundred this morning.

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Yes, to what end ? Maybe a homework/training assignment at Dr. Evil's Hackers Academy ?!? BTW, back to a couple hundred this morning.

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And coincidentally, much more responsive.

It was an attack of Chinee bots, just like the recent thread of the massive attacks on St. Louis financial centers. The why part is what bothers me.....


edit: I just had a thought. Maybe ANY forum that had that attack link got targeted...just saying....

Spammers... F'em

423yjl said:

I would think that this is what is happening, but what would this accomplish? disruption between the ad company and the forum?

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The web site is paid per ad clicked on. The other alternative is that these are web-scraping bots that look at each message and grab all the email addresses and phone numbers people post in their signatures and elsewhere.