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less than a year ago I posted this recognizing the 6000th member

Rabies wrote:Blind Eternities is the 6000th member joining on Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:43 am

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how we have grown

Sad part is so many register and never participate.

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Every now and then I prune users out who registered and never came back. Most of them are probably failed spam bots.

Uncle Jesse wrote:Every now and then I prune users out who registered and never came back. Most of them are probably failed spam bots.

So does that knock the registerd users count back down???

Fastill wrote:

Uncle Jesse wrote:Every now and then I prune users out who registered and never came back. Most of them are probably failed spam bots.

So does that knock the registerd users count back down???

Yes, when UJ dumped the inactives, he dumped about 10% of the user base (we dropped from about 9800 to about 8700 in a couple days).

At the end of march, I made some modifications to the php source for the site (in the user registration code). The very trivial changes have just about eliminated ALL robot signup's. We have even removed the CAPTCHA module, and reenabled some of the worst offending email sites (gmail.com which we banned about 2 years ago). Since April 1, there have been only a handful of robot signups, which are easy to delete when they happen. Before, we had CAPTCHA, many bad email banned, and still were getting about 4 to 15 spam-robots signup's each each day. It was a major task keeping them removed from the user ranks. Now we are getting 5 to 10 signup's a day, and they are 95% real people (almost no robots). Thus until the robot writers figure out how to get around the code changes I made, it will likely be that we do not need 'user base' cleanup much in the future.

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according to junkyard dawg, im the magic no 9000!

promise you im not gonna vanish. just too much to learn here, and some fair rewards for getting it right!

facebook can go to hell.

hd is where it's at!

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