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So I was looking around at videos/etc and looked in at the Meguiars forum. At the time ( late mourning on a Wednesday) they claimed to have 3,212 viewers at that moment on their forum. Don't know about anyone else but I am calling extreme BS on those numbers. I would doubt they have as high as 1% of that number of viewers which would be 32.
Seems to be a common theme on many forums. Maybe if they tallied up the number of viewers that ever logged on that number (3,212) would be believeable.
Seeing as the most recent posting was a day ago and before that the next was a week ago I highly doubt their numbers. Wonder if one of the requirements to obtaining a job at one of the detailing products companies is one has to be a very polished liar???
 
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BLM said:
So I was looking around at videos/etc and looked in at the Meguiars forum. At the time ( late mourning on a Wednesday) they claimed to have 3,212 viewers at that moment on their forum. Don't know about anyone else but I am calling extreme BS on those numbers. I would doubt they have as high as 1% of that number of viewers which would be 32.
Seems to a common theme on many forums. Maybe if they tallied up the number of viewers that ever logged on that number (3,212) would be believeable.
Seeing as the most recent posting was a day ago and before that the next was a week ago I highly doubt their numbers. Wonder if one of the requirements to obtaining a job at one of the detailing products companies is one has to be a very polished liar???
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chilly said:
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THIS.

I'm on a forum that is struggling to contain the BOT activity. It gets to the point where there are so many of them that is slows pages loading, often resulting in a server time outs. It's such a shame because the activity is ruining the forum for those who are there for genuine reasons. For context, at one point last week there was something like 85,000 "guests" online, but only 15 members. Looking at it now, 15,000 guests and 12 members.
 
Hadn't thought of that. I'm sure there are all kinds of reasons someone would want to permanently monitor a particular site. Competitors, Marketing people, Scammers, etc.
Seems like there could be a way that only a human could interact with a forum.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
So these "bots" are the search engines scouring the forums?
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That is one possibility but generally this is software traffic "scraping" and searching for exploitable date, just as BLM stated above, to sell to marketers, competitors, etc or looking for data that can be exploited by bad actors

That's why you never post an email or home address or anything like that online

Not necessarily because someone on the forum will abuse it, but because a data miner will get their hands on it and presto, the world knows your info
 
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