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Guest apperances
« Thread Started on Aug 2, 2008, 3:26pm »

Just a minor question about guests on the forum. I am puzzled about the numbers of guests who appear on the count at the bottom of the home page. There always seems to be quite a few but they obviously don't get to see much or take part unless they are logged in.
Would I be right in saying that we all appear as a guest when we come to the forum each time before we log in?
If this is the case then the guest numbers are totally deceptive and irrelevant?
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« Reply #1 on Aug 2, 2008, 4:58pm »

Andy - I think you will find that lots of the 'guests' are either 'bots' or 'spiders' that trawl the web looking for content, they are written by people like 'Google' or 'Yahoo' etc to look for updated web pages etc, if the pages are password protected (like the forum) I don't think that they can access them??

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Re: Guest apperances
« Reply #2 on Aug 2, 2008, 8:05pm »

They are probably a mixture of genuine guests and "bots". Not sure if the two categories can be seperated.
BTW....why sign in each time?.....I use the remember me facility.

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Re: Guest apperances
« Reply #3 on Sept 3, 2008, 8:19pm »

You can also set the system so it keeps you logged on permanently.

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Re: Guest apperances
« Reply #4 on Sept 4, 2008, 8:47am »

When you click on the Forum, but before you actually log in, you will show as a guest, until you log in.

The number of guests often seems to go up for a short while after a Wainwright Walks prog has been broadcast.

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Re: Guest apperances
« Reply #5 on Sept 11, 2008, 4:18pm »

You can't actually view content as a guest, though? What's the point of being a guest? Or have I got that wrong?

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Re: Guest apperances
« Reply #6 on Sept 11, 2008, 5:30pm »

Sept 11, 2008, 4:18pm, derek wrote:

You can't actually view content as a guest, though? What's the point of being a guest? Or have I got that wrong?

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I'm not to sure about that Derek, I managed to find my forym profile while I was checking web site links through Google, it let me view the page without been logged in????

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