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Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: thouc on June 27, 2012, 06:14:09 PM

Title: Most users ever online was 141 on Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:50 am
Post by: thouc on June 27, 2012, 06:14:09 PM

Who were all these people here in the middle of the night?

Title: Re: Most users ever online was 141 on Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:50
Post by: Andreas Jonsson on July 05, 2012, 03:20:38 PM

Weird, cannot be right. Spammers?

Title: Re: Most users ever online was 141 on Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:50
Post by: Raven11:11 on August 14, 2012, 06:21:23 PM

Sunday night at this time?   :wink:

hmm... I worked in the computer / internet marketing field for 7+yrs and know too much about patterns and behavior on the net, so this stat is either an error or 100% spammers.

My 2 stats courses I took in UNiv also lead me to conclude these numbers make absolutely zero sense and again, no disrespect to the programmers or mods or people who taped this site together but we all need toask ourselves if the things we read online are really real> ?

Unless there was a major event and they were all night / sky gazing and saw a dragon spitting fire overhead then .... nope.

The website counter could also be wrong, infected, etc...  i could go on.

Title: Re: Most users ever online was 141 on Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:50
Post by: Napper on August 28, 2012, 07:46:37 PM

I believe the proper term is "data mining'

threads are scanned for names, email addresses, urls, etc

I don't know if  phpbb has any security built in to it but  ip addresses might also be a target.

Hence the name :idea: Napper & napper505@gmail.com, gmail has a wonderful spam filter

And no I don't wear a helmet made of tinfoil  :D

(http://fictionandeverythingelse.blogetery.com/files/2010/12/tinfoil-hat.jpg)

Title: Re: Most users ever online was 141 on Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:50
Post by: thouc on August 28, 2012, 08:38:03 PM

I think someone just reset the counter...