Well, because I finally saw someone (Dave) bring it up, I'm curious as to what people think about the absurd number of supposed "guests" this forum gets on a regular basis. Currently the forum says that we have 4K guests online... For some reason I don't think that this is the case. Does anyone know what this forum considers a "view" or how long it lasts for? Or maybe we are just the most hoppin forum on the internet and we don't even know it...
My guess is that it's a couple dozen lurkers, a dozen search engine crawlers, a dozen data miner crawlers, and the remainder are spam bots.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Why doesn't Wheylous's forum have these?
My humble blog
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"a dozen search engine crawlers, a dozen data miner crawlers"
What are these?
I know that search engine crawlers are bots used by websites in order to find new websites and link them over to google and other search engines, so that the forum posts can be found.
Data miner crawlers are probably used to gather other information from the World Wide Web.
Schools are labour camps.
Smiling Dave: Why doesn't Wheylous's forum have these?
Neodoxy: "a dozen search engine crawlers, a dozen data miner crawlers" What are these?
dont forget data collection for purposes of marketing.
My forum doesn't have them because my forum is made of bald eagle tears.
how did it tear? wait, did you mean tears or tears? how would you make something out of tears? how would you make something out of tears, even? wow