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Old 12-28-07, 12:36 PM
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yeah that is true we would have like 1000 posts a day if everyone posted. But forums are just not a place to post, some people just like to read what other people post.
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Most people don't even do that though.

I don't understand why people waste their time registering on forums that they are never going to post on or even visit at all.
Many forums have a lot of "bot" registrations but at PTF only 0-2% of our members are bots because of our sophisticated bot-blocking softwares .
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So like virus' or advertisments?
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Question on registration form: Are you a bot?

Anyway, a lot of people do just browse through, but those people are unregistered or didn't sign in or anything. For some reason they just show up and read posts, then leave. Maybe a lot are people seeing if they want to join the forum, but who among those actually join and stay? It's weird posting in an old thread and not knowing if the thread starter will ever read it.

Now I also wouldn't want a thousand active members. The forum would be impossible to navigate through and I think there would be less sense of community. Also there would be more spam and people making a post that just says "bump." Did I already say something like that in this thread? It seems familiar to me...
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So like virus' or advertisments?
Not really viruses.

Many times small companies (or scammers) looking for more business hire a company to get them business. That company then will create a web "robot" program that will basically find forums on the web, register, and post advertisements/spam all automatically.

We have several systems in place to block automatic registrations. Two of them you can see (on the registration page - the verification image and the random question) and there are a few others you cannot see (one system automatically blocks registrations that happen too quickly even if they answer the questions right).
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Question on registration form: Are you a bot?

Anyway, a lot of people do just browse through, but those people are unregistered or didn't sign in or anything. For some reason they just show up and read posts, then leave. Maybe a lot are people seeing if they want to join the forum, but who among those actually join and stay? It's weird posting in an old thread and not knowing if the thread starter will ever read it.

Now I also wouldn't want a thousand active members. The forum would be impossible to navigate through and I think there would be less sense of community. Also there would be more spam and people making a post that just says "bump." Did I already say something like that in this thread? It seems familiar to me...
http://www.puretalkforum.com/f2/the-...html#post15238 (The Year 2007)
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Oh, well atleast you have something to pervent it.
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