Guests

[johnhughthom]

When browsing the Org, I often notice that one sub forum has a huge amount of guest viewers (for instance right now there are 40 in the Frontroom, 25% of the total in the entire forum). Is there some form of spambot going ons that monitors forums like this, or is it just coincidence, or something else entirely? Just curious if there is a reason behind it.

[TinCow]

You can get more info on the guests by clicking on the link that says X users online (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/online.php). Typically, half of the guests are spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler) and I believe they tend to congregate in the fora that get the most posts, as there's more to index there, so you see more of them in places like the Frontroom and Backroom. The half of the guests that are human tend to be more evenly distributed across the TW content fora. Those are usually people who have googled for a specific question about a TW game or mod, and gotten linked to us as a result. Think about how many times you read a thread on a forum you never actually register on. Those are generally your human guests.

[edyzmedieval]

Can we add a little message at the top of the forum page to entice/encourage the guests to sign up and post?

[Montmorency]

As we have seen, those who have something to post will sign up and do so of their own accord.

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