Coin Talk is a very busy Forum.

Every day, I hit the three web sites I frequent to see what's new in the coin world. I really never tracked how many people were on a particular web site when I was on.

I just saw that Coin Talk has just over 500 collectors on line at the moment. I had just left the NGC site, where a grand total of 13 collectors were on line in all their Forums.

I would imagine PCGS has somewhere in the middle of those figures. Edited: I just checked. 139 users on line as I type this.

This place I a whole busier than most people realize.

Keep it up, Coin Talk. Good job !!

 

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Now just to convert all of those lurkers into contributing members. Come on guys, if you are reading this, you can be a member and post whatever questions you may have here!

 

Ah, I see somewhere to insert an annoying register now post. I do this frequently over on the main weather forum I post on, especially when we have a lot of lurkers.

Ahem.

Hey you 745 guests on the forum!

REGISTER! http://www.cointalk.com/register.php

Most of us don't bite!
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Unless the forum software properly tweaked, large portion of these guests are bots and spiders, not real people.

 

I choose to come to this forum over others because quite frankly, the other sites have some people who have attitude problems. I mean having an ego is one thing, but a few of these guys go way beyond. They belittle newbie posts and refuse to listen to views other than their own.

at least here some of us are better tolerated. lol

Just sayin'

gary

 

You know those guests could be bots :smile

 

Now why would there be bots??? I believe they are trying to take over the world. Just listening into our conversations just so they can find out stuff like where we live and our social security #s.


I actually came to this forum for help writing a paper and became a more advanced collector

 

Vast majority probably are. A "guest" viewing the site usually counts as an un-logged-in visitor from a unique IP address that has viewed the site in the past 24 hours.

I'd speculate that given the vast amount of data on CoinTalk that somewhere around 3/4's of those "visitors" are bots.

EDIT: For those who don't understand what we mean by "bots" we mean computer programs that crawl the web looking for data to add to search engine databases.

 

A lurker can become a member anytime. I lurked around for a few weeks to get the feel of the forum before I joined. Perhaps they're doing the same thing? Well maybe not all of them...

 

No offense intended, but that is spoken like a dinosaur.

The way these bots work is they go to a webpage and crawl every page of the site, building databases out of key words they find on those pages. So if there's a 40 page thread, that bot will crawl over the whole thread, every page, every word, sticking the key words into a database somewhere associated with that page. The burden of search bots on a forums traffic can be fairly heavy if it's a popular and very active forum, as is this one, hence why most search engines will allow you to opt out of showing up on their results. If you opt out, the bots will no longer access pages on your domain.

How do I know? As admin of a forum with about 500 monthly users, I can tell you that prior to opting out of the search engine results, we were seeing somewhere around 100-150 bots per day crawling all open forums.

 

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95 members, 790 guests online right now :O

 

I really like Coin Talk as it's a great mixture of old blood and new blood with lots and lots of new traffic.

It's non-TPG owned which allows me the freedom of really expressing myself instead of worrying that what I say regarding a TPG will come back to bite me in the butt!

The forums are well maintained, have some excellent features and have a very reasonable response time for me.

 

Greater number of posts = greater number of bots crawling the forum to skin data. They rise in proportion to one another. It's not like they assign three bots to a forum or something... it's all mathematical algorhythms that determine how many bots will crawl a forum on a day.

I'm not saying that there's nobody else checking out CT, I'm saying that number is greatly inflated by bots and also, by the way "guests" are measured by most forum software. Let's say someone reads a CT page they found via google, hits the back button to get back to their search, and goes back on the web... well, they're still counted as a "guest" reading that forum/thread for 24 hours after that.

It's like saying there's 800 people on the escalator at one time when 800 people have used it in the last 24 hours. Misleading if nothing else.

 

Where did it go ? I just saw an article posting that sounded interesting on the side board. But I visited a few other links before I could get back to the subject of a presidential dollar having an new found error, the site was no longer on the side board. I searched the different forums but couldn't find it.