Seriously.
Really, these "ghost" users are gettin creepy and are poping up more then they apperantly should be. Which I believe should be never. Does anyone have a clue what these might be?
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[Answered]Ghost Users.... Gettin creepy
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- Chaos Lord
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 01:38 AM
#2 Guest_Jack_*
Posted 24 August 2005 - 01:40 AM
It's me! Yay!
Maybe these ghost guys are actually guests? That's why they don't have names?
Maybe these ghost guys are actually guests? That's why they don't have names?
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 01:44 AM
They aren't guests. After I took the pic, I went and chose Regisered only, and they poped up.
Edit: Pfff. One of them left.
Edit: Pfff. One of them left.
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 04:36 AM
I was the first one to use the word ghost in your oold topic but thats gone with the ye old spam topic and they arent ghost i was in a topic a while back and one of those thing was in it aswell tell me how exactly it got in there
I had a pic from a min a go but i dont have any space to post it up in
I had a pic from a min a go but i dont have any space to post it up in
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 06:01 AM
That happened to me also, I really want to know whats happening with online lists, its really getting screwed.
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 06:28 AM
I've seen the weird Guest phenomenon happened occaisonally, they are usually google, but for ghost members, I have no idea.
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 03:03 PM
I think it is members who do not wish for others to read that they are logged in.
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 03:17 PM
Nick and I looked into this issue the other day. The problem of an unrealistic number of guests appearing on the forum is a result of a bug in the forum software that does not properly recognize the Yahoo Search Spider (which indexes the forums so you can search for stuff from Yahoo.com), and thus reports a new guest every time the spider goes to a new page.
There isn't anything we can really do about this but wait until the new version of IPB (our forum software). Just ignore it for now.
There isn't anything we can really do about this but wait until the new version of IPB (our forum software). Just ignore it for now.
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 03:34 PM
Oh, I was starting to think it was a glitch that happened every once in a while.
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 05:30 PM
Yeah, that sounds about right, since it's kinda like with Google's Image Search engine, only different.
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Posted 26 August 2005 - 10:18 AM
People in Firefox with more than one tab open?
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Posted 26 August 2005 - 12:49 PM
Well, then shouldn't I appear ghost-like too? Plus, if there were two open, the last one you click would update where you are.
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Posted 26 August 2005 - 01:31 PM
It has nothing to do with tabs open and whatnot. It has to do with the way Yahoo Search Spider indexes the pages on this forum. We really can't do anything about it.
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Posted 26 August 2005 - 01:56 PM
As has been said, Yahoo Search Spider and Google SearchBot, I've seen the Google SearchBot alot though.
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Posted 26 August 2005 - 01:56 PM
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Posted 27 August 2005 - 10:02 PM
This dumb crap has been answered. Are you going to close this or do I have to sleep with your girlfriend to get your attention? Exactly.
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