How Many New Members

frank81 · Post by **frank81** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:32 am

dusty wrote:Most of the new members are a puzzle to me but not all of them. Some are really Shopsmith owners and to them we say Welcome Ya'll. But them others are here with a motive. The latest is:

[ATTACH]20803[/ATTACH]
Member #19875

Posts like this one I believe are put there to make money. I suspect that someone gets paid based on the number of times this site is visited. In other words, I just contributed to this spammers welfare and so did you if you looked.

There is apparently no harm being done but it can be aggravating. Several of the "new members" have posted ads like this but for "self storage" facilities. Actually, they don't post these ads. They simply include a link (website address) in their profile. If you don't go look, you'll never know it has happened. This, no harm done.

Someone, anyone please correct me if I am wrong.

Here is a link to my cure for insomnia. I don't get paid for your clicks. But it is gauranteed to work.

http://www.bulleitbourbon.com

reible · Post by **reible** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:35 am

A quick look gave me 397 members who have a www. address in their profile(home page). Not a huge number.

I did look at a few (using cut and paste in a new window) and some were rather interesting, payday loans, rentals, wedding stuff, t-shirts, french lingerie, auto glass, and chiropodist to name a few.

Anyway at this point the numbers are pretty low and a lot look like they belong as personal or business home pages.

Ed

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:19 am

By sunrise in Tucson today, the forum will have it 20,000th member (whose member # will be 20044??).

Opps, I am going to miss this one. The sky is turning pink and the count is no where near 20044.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:45 pm

has just joined the forum.

Congratulations go out to nanscspvi (member ID#20044) for becoming the 20K member.

We hope that you will join us soon and tell us a little about yourself. Pictures of your shop and equipment would also be neat. What model Mark 5/V do you have? How long have you been a wood worker?

:):)

The sun came up real late in Tucson today. It was 11:42am when this occurred.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat May 18, 2013 7:27 am

Am I seeing this right. Back in April the forum membership was 20,000 or so and now on May 18th the membership is a grand total of 27,412 at this moment? That's phenomenal. The forum is gaining on the order of 200 members a day.

reible · Post by **reible** » Sat May 18, 2013 10:08 am

dusty wrote:Am I seeing this right. Back in April the forum membership was 20,000 or so and now on May 18th the membership is a grand total of 27,412 at this moment? That's phenomenal. The forum is gaining on the order of 200 members a day.

You are right this is phenomenal.

2013 year to date count is 13,313!

Ed

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sat May 18, 2013 1:52 pm

reible wrote:You are right this is phenomenal.

2013 year to date count is 13,313!

Ed

I hope a large portion of those are 'legitimate' and not spammers:).

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Fri May 24, 2013 11:21 pm

Just a few new member counts and dates, taken at 6:45pm my time.

04/27/13 21700
04/18/13 21855
04/21/13 22333
04/24/13 22877
04/27/13 23418
05/01/13 24130
05/04/13 24610
05/07/13 25124
05/24/13 28948
05/29/13 30026
05/30/13 30213
06/03/13 30912
06/05/13 31314
06/06/13 31525
06/07/13 31699
06/10/13 32202
06/12/13 32540
06/13/13 32657
06/17/13 33073
06/21/13 33387
06/25/13 33684
06/29/13 34000 @ 2:25pm
07/07/13 34602
07/12/13 34851
09/09/13 40000 @9:10am
09/22/13 41000
10/13/13 43000
10/23/13 44000 @12:03pm
10/31/13 45000 @8:07 pm
11/09/13 46000
11/18/13 47000 @11:20am
11/28/13 48000
12/10/13 49000 @8:35
12/19/13 50000 @10:41am
01/16/14 53000 @3:10pm
02/06/14 55000
03/07/14 58000 @1:30pm
03/15/14 59000 @10:39am
03/24/14 60000
04/14/14 62000
05/03/14 63000
06/22/14 63100
10/21/14 40055 Reset by admin deleting inactive members.
11/08/14 40100 @7:14am
12/12/14 40200 @6:19am
03/16/15 40500

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat May 25, 2013 9:05 am

beeg wrote:Just a few new member counts and dates.

04/27/13 21700
04/18/13 21855
04/21/13 22333
04/24/13 22877
04/27/13 23418
05/01/13 24130
05/04/13 24610
05/07/13 25124
05/24/13 28948

5/25/13 29175 @ 6:04am +227 from beeg's last post 14 hours ago. I'd say the membership count is booming but it doesn't seem as though many (if any) of them are posting.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sat May 25, 2013 12:28 pm

dusty wrote:5/25/13 29175 @ 6:04am +227 from beeg's last post 14 hours ago. I'd say the membership count is booming but it doesn't seem as though many (if any) of them are posting.

How many are 'lurking'?

Has the logged on count been affected?

I still be suspicious that spammers account for many that 'go away' after finding out the back doors are closed.

I am assuming they 'go away'.

Wonder what the 'count' would be if those who have not logged on after a year were purged.

227 'new members' added during the 'wee' hours(for us anyway). That is while daylight in the 'peoples republic'.

P.S. Dusty post time - Beeg post time is closer to 9+ hours.

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