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Outrageous Number of Guests
Topic Started: Jan 13 2012, 11:48 AM (410 Views)
Fishes Go Blub-ZNS
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So, on my tiny little board, there are a total of 19 members. Guests are few and far between. It's been this way since the root admin started it however many years ago.

Recently, though, swarms and swarms of guests have been on the board, bumping the "Most Active Users on at One Time" from maybe 12 to one hundred-something. It's very odd, and a bit disconcerting. The other Admin and myself have discussed the possibility of it being a bot, but we really don't know what to do about it.

Any ideas or suggestions?
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Hissae2
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I've been getting this for the last few days as well, as has most of server 4. I assume they're search bots. They are completely harmless, they don't cause any slowness, don't join and post spam, all it does it increases the record number of guests. :)
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I get a lot of these, and the majority have IPs all the same but the last few numbers. I finally opened a support ticket about it and was told they are likely search engines.

It would be nice if there were some way to make successive IPs from not showing up as Guests, but as search engines if that is what they are. Because it can be a tad disconcerting for a smaller board to have more "Guests" (albeit bots) on than members, especially given the DoS attempts on the servers.

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Fishes Go Blub-ZNS
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Okay, so they're harmless. But is there any way to manually set the record number of users, because that's all I really care about. :P
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Hissae2
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When these bots die down again, you can reset your record to 0 by going to your admincp then Board Stats.

There's no point in doing this until they stop coming hundreds at a time everyday. :P
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Alright. Thanks, you guys! I appreciate all the quick and helpful feedback. :)
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