Back to Crafty Games Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 22, 2013, 06:39:08 PM
Home Help Search Login Register
News: Welcome to the Crafty Games Forums!

Note to New Members: To combat spam, we have instituted new rules: you must post 5 replies to existing threads before you can create new threads.

+  Crafty Games Forum
|-+  Community
| |-+  Customer Service
| | |-+  New member count		 « previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: New member count  (Read 1356 times)
Golden Dragon
Handler
*****
Posts: 836



View Profile
« on: January 17, 2008, 12:22:48 PM »
(I didn't know whether to post this here or in Off Topic.)

I've been noticing a discrepancy for a while. On the main forum page, it says we currently have 466 members. Using the [more stats] link, there is a table listing stats by month, including new members. If I add up that column, I get 167 members.

For those of you with some forum fu, can you tell us what is going on?

First wild guess is that the table is counting first postings for members, but I have done no digging to confirm it.
Logged
Gregory the Golden Dragon
-I'm a child progeny.
-Most children are.
      Calvin & Hobbes
Wolverine
Control
******
Posts: 3476


I want to smoke a fairy


View Profile WWW
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2008, 01:25:21 PM »
There might be some confusion if there are a large number of Spammers joining the forum, and then getting subsequently banned and removed. That's just the first thing that comes to mind for me.
Logged
"Dickhead books?"
 -Patrick Kapera wrestling with the New Zealand accent
Nepenthe
Control
******
Posts: 1281


High Priest of the Cult of Crafty


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2008, 01:39:52 PM »
Quote from: Wolverine on January 17, 2008, 01:25:21 PM
There might be some confusion if there are a large number of Spammers joining the forum, and then getting subsequently banned and removed. That's just the first thing that comes to mind for me.

Spambots often manage to create a new account but fail at activating it (to simplify crudely) - I'd guess a lot of those users never had their accounts activated. Last time I checked, SMF had a feature for pruning unactivated accounts after a set period...

Of course, sometimes  you can get flooded without having an actual Viagra/iPhone spammer, but...  Wink
Logged
Reapercussions
Golden Dragon
Handler
*****
Posts: 836



View Profile
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2008, 01:45:38 PM »
I went and looked at the members listing. It said there were 462 members, not 466. Those with at least 1 post accounted for 222 accounts, so I don't think its all the result of unactivated accounts.
Logged
Gregory the Golden Dragon
-I'm a child progeny.
-Most children are.
      Calvin & Hobbes
Crafty_Alex
Crafty Staff
Control
*****
Posts: 3032


Damned if I do, damned if I don't.


View Profile WWW
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2008, 01:59:12 PM »
I just tried refreshing the stats to see if that would fix the issue. One thing that's important to note is that the forum software is synched with the user accounts on the front page - when you create an account there, you also get a SMF account. This forum member count matches our registered site user count.

The interesting thign is we get thousands of unique visitors here - on an order of magnitiude of 4-to-1 of the registered users and over 10-1 on active posters. There's a lot of lurking around these parts... Smiley
Logged
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci

Alex Flagg
Crafty Games
Wolverine
Control
******
Posts: 3476


I want to smoke a fairy


View Profile WWW
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2008, 03:09:13 PM »
Quote from: Alex on January 17, 2008, 01:59:12 PM
There's a lot of lurking around these parts... Smiley

Well, it is called Spycraft, Alex Grin
Logged
"Dickhead books?"
 -Patrick Kapera wrestling with the New Zealand accent
Forcegypsy
Handler
*****
Posts: 689





View Profile
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2008, 04:33:44 PM »
Good one Wolverine Cheesy 
Logged
player4
Jr. Agent
**
Posts: 53



View Profile
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2008, 11:47:31 PM »
*shuffles feet*  I admit it... I troll, all the time.
Logged
Quote from: MilitiaJim on July 29, 2011, 08:21:23 AM
But you do want Friendship.  Or am I going to have to come over there and love & tolerate you?   Evil
Crafty_Alex
Crafty Staff
Control
*****
Posts: 3032


Damned if I do, damned if I don't.


View Profile WWW
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2008, 12:30:30 AM »
That's not trolling - that's lurking Wink
Logged
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci

Alex Flagg
Crafty Games
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.13 | SMF © 2006-2011, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!