The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: yankieGirl on August 09, 2011, 11:46:44 pm
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A member on another thread posted, in part:
... 88 guests at one time today and 5 members? ... Increasingly folk seem to want to listen into the forum (under a cloak of invisibility) and react when they want under their 'name' or maybe a new one?
Why does this matter? Explain please.
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I am not bothered if people do not sign in, I just said I sometimes log out as I am so often logged in that I do not want people to know if I am out ;D......I also use FB and Twitter so if some one wants to steel my best jewels they will know when to break in!!!
I personaly cannot see a problem with so many guests, maybe people want to remain annon for other reasons!!
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I always stay logged in on this forum. I suppose some people do not want to join, but enjoy reading the posts .......
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I am always signed in cuz that's how my computer does it. When I was a guest on this forum I read all the good stuff and loved it! I didn't sign up until I had a question I just had to ask.
I am a member on another forum and I am not automatically signed in so I read the good stuff as a guest until there is something I feel I want to ask or respond to.
My question is...why is it bothersome that people stay on "guest" status?
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Actually, a lot of the guests will be web-bots, trawling the forum for search engine info etc. Nothing to worry about (but still a bit spooky eh? ;))
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Womble's right, we're suffering a minor flood of spam registrations at the moment (about one a minute) so those guest numbers are a bit inflated.
We've had to suspend automatic registration and move to manual approval temporarily. >:(
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I have to stay signed in cause I can never remember my password! .... but, I do keep my security updated daily, and I don't play any of the Facebook games programs (worst offenders) . I only use the secure setting on FB. (https)
Can we have that on here please?
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one of the guests is me sometimes :)
if i'm at work i can read the forum as a guest but if i log in it flags it as 'questionable internet usage'.
not that i would surf the interwebz at work of course, because that would be norty ;D
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one of the guests is me sometimes :)
if i'm at work i can read the forum as a guest but if i log in it flags it as 'questionable internet usage'.
not that i would surf the interwebz at work of course, because that would be norty ;D
How dare they list TASas "questionable internet usage"! It's educational ;D
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Its not really an issue more of an observation. It just seemed a bit sad to sit on the sidelines reading other peoples conversations rather than formaly joining up and joining in. I know sometimes we have nothing to say - other than maybe agreeing or learning. Prehaps the new site will allow that?