Current Active Users & Who's Online Page

[Mike Jordan]

You must get more bugs than I do (I've never had any), Lynne, which is why I don't know where they always are. But now that I know, I should be able to find it.

Thanks

Mi...

[Mike Jordan]

Well, after following the above link and then a few more links from that, it seems it is a bug or a features that was put in for something different. There does seem to be a patch, although the person...

[Mike Jordan]

I just upgraded to 3.7.4 a couple of days ago and I just noticed something. I logged on and noticed in the What's Going On that the list of current active users said 1 member and 2 guests. When I went...

[Mike Jordan]

Question posted in wrong area. I can't delete the message myself, so I'm just removing my question. Sorry.

Mike

[Mike Jordan]

I do have the question set up. And yes, that stops the robots. But it won't stop the humans... unless they can't read English at all and then they wouldn't understand the question and what they had to...

[Mike Jordan]

That's what I figured, Steve.

If I had access to the server, I could put a anayliser on it and capture the data coming in and see it that way. I suspect a lot of the bots are the same programs...

[Mike Jordan]

When someone (or some thing) is registering and filling out the new registration information, does this get written to the database while they are entering the data or is it stored in memory until they...

[Mike Jordan]

While the idea will probably work, you are probably too late in implementing it. Once your pages have been scanned by the search bots (the legitimate ones) and they have been stored in the search engines...

[Mike Jordan]

Sounds like you need to just delete him, not reduce his functions and blame it on the software. Admin's like this can do a lot of long term damage to your forum. Is keeping him worth more than keeping...

[Mike Jordan]

Thanks Steve. Yea, it would be nice, just like we could do back during the DOS modem days running a BBS.

I'll take a look over there and see if anyone has come up with something yet....

[Mike Jordan]

Have you noticed any performance impact with a list t his long? My list is only about 2 dozen IP's long right now, but China and Russia are big places.

I've got a fairly nitch forum and...

[Mike Jordan]

Is there a log kept or a way to tell where a guest is in the registration process? Sometimes when I look at the Currently Active Users page I see a guest has Registering in the Location column and the...

[Mike Jordan]

I'm going to add my 2 cents to this thread as well. I bought 3.6.8 back last Dec. I've got a small, niche type forum so I don't get a lot of users or search bot traffic. In the last 6 months...

[Mike Jordan]

You are right, Elenna. I didn't even think to click on the down arrow and searched all over the place looking for who it was.

It did show me the two users that are in that user group. But...

[Mike Jordan]

I was looking at the Usergroup Manager under Default Usergroups and it showed that I have 2 users awaiting e-mail activation. I've searched on Users with the box checked for Users Awaiting E-mail Activation...