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05-20-2010, 06:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belgium | | | Why are so many guests reading the Off Topic forum?
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Isn't this scary to any of you? 
4 members & 23 guests
Well, this is an extreme picture but it's always like this to 50-50 members/guests ratio.
I can understand a bunchload of guests viewing the Basses, Amps, etcetera forums. People who don't want to join the forum but are researching something bass related.
But what is an outsider's interest in our Off Topic forum?
Are they that curious what bass players think about Lost Season 6, the NBA playoffs and what are funny pictures?
Does Maki have a big anonymous fanbase that follow up on his "2 cents" advice?
Is it relevant what our opinion is on global warming to the outside world?
Or is there lucrative general interest in love problems from bassists aged 13 to 67?
Or...
Do you think our wifes and/or girlfriends are keeping track of us?
Is your employer aware that you are spending paid hours posting here?
Are your friends (in real life) chuckling when you feel comfortable coming out of the closet out here among open-minded TBers?
Is your mother worried about your peculiar interests and opinions? Or your father?
Or...
Are there bigger things going on?
Is Big Brother watching us through various IP-adresses? |
05-20-2010, 06:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: NH-USA | | LOL! It's because everyone knows bass players are funny!!! 
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05-20-2010, 06:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Maryland | | | off topic sections on large forums are generally funny. Also, chances are that a member(s) here posted a link to a thread in the off topic forum on another forum they are a member of. Subsequently there are guests reading those threads, plus they might just cruise around and look at others.
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05-20-2010, 06:57 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Off Topic is the shizzle dawg! |
05-20-2010, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by René_Julien  Are there bigger things going on?
Is Big Brother watching us through various IP-adresses? | Make a post that contains certain keywords like terrorist, bomb, Iran, assassination, president, Korea, etc, and then watch and see if the number of guests goes up.
Oh wait.... 
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05-20-2010, 06:57 AM
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05-20-2010, 07:00 AM
|  | TalkBass: Usurping My Practice Time Since 2002
Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | A couple reasons. Forum searchers gather links for topics that may have nothing to do with the forum's main intent- a forum search for blimps for example may bring up a thread from this forum's OT, a blimp forum, and mike_v_s's own "Blimps 'n Cristal" forum. Another reason is newbies to a forum often gravitate to the OT section, as they may not know enough information to contribute much to the regular forums and the OT section gives them something to relate to. This behavior is probably mimicked by lurkers who haven't yet officially signed up.
The guests may also include search bots/spiders. |
05-20-2010, 07:00 AM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Happynoj Make a post that contains certain keywords like terrorist, bomb, Iran, assassination, president, Korea, etc, and then watch and see if the number of guests goes up. | NO NO NO NO NO!!!
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05-20-2010, 07:48 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | Sorry... it was just me and my room full of 23 computers all signed into TBOT so that I didnt miss anything.
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05-20-2010, 08:00 AM
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edit: yeah I'm bored |
05-20-2010, 08:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Somewhere in Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by René_Julien
edit: yeah I'm bored | oh that is excellent
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05-20-2010, 08:40 AM
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05-20-2010, 08:45 AM
|  | Hammer On! | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Babbling Brook | | | Also, you've got members reading the forums when not logged in.
Why? They are on a work computer, friend's computer, or traveling and using a business center computer or other...
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05-20-2010, 08:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belgium | | If you use the "who's online" feature, it distinguishes between members, guests and bots. http://www.talkbass.com/forum/online.php
You see a few "MSN Spider bot", "Google bot", "Yahoo something something",.... but not that many.
I assume by this that the forum software recognizes the difference between guests and bots... and I think bots are not counted as guests. |
05-20-2010, 09:14 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Are there other forums here?
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05-20-2010, 09:15 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 Are there other forums here?
-Mike | Yup -- Classifieds
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05-20-2010, 09:21 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | These are obviously 23 confused bass fishermen.
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05-20-2010, 09:21 AM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PSPookie Yup -- Classifieds | Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Do NOT under any circumstances ever remind me of that little fact again.
There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB, There are no classified here on TB.
whew... that was a close call.
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Originally Posted by machine gewehr I happened to have a better experience, a peegasm. | |
05-20-2010, 09:21 AM
|  | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | There's a map hidden somewhere in a thread here in TBOT that leads to a massive cache of treasure, alcohol and women of relaxed moral attitudes, and, believe it or not, it's not just bassists who are into those things.
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05-20-2010, 09:24 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the obvious answer - it's all the banned ex-members who are desperate to know if anybody has mentioned/missed them!! 
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