Guests?

CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
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Yea, is this a bug in the forum, or do this many people really lurk these forums...
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  • FaskaliaFaskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation
    Everyone on the main site is counted as a guest.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    And according to the main site, there are 61 people online, not well over a thousand.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    It could also be a bunch of bots, or something.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Hmm the last thread about the number of guests was when it hovered @ ~200 guests, either botMaNiA is upon us or lots of lorks
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1635804:date=Jun 25 2007, 04:23 PM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kouji_San @ Jun 25 2007, 04:23 PM) [snapback]1635804[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Hmm the last thread about the number of guests was when it hovered @ ~200 guests, either botMaNiA is upon us or lots of lorks
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    We don't have the clorfs for that many guests.
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1635805:date=Jun 25 2007, 05:27 PM:name=UltimaGecko)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(UltimaGecko @ Jun 25 2007, 05:27 PM) [snapback]1635805[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    We don't have the clorfs for that many guests.
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    So... Can I... Can I get the shirtgons?
  • FaskaliaFaskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation
    It's rather strange.

    COuld it be possible that the main page counts users from different IPs only and the forum just counts total users. If this is true then it could be a denial of service attack, trying to whack the forum by establishing several hundred connections from the same ip.
  • HybridclawHybridclaw Join Date: 2003-11-03 Member: 22271Members
    over a thousand people on the forums and only about 600 people playing ns <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1635814:date=Jun 25 2007, 03:16 PM:name=Hybridclaw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Hybridclaw @ Jun 25 2007, 03:16 PM) [snapback]1635814[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    over a thousand people on the forums and only about 600 people playing ns <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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    And what, that's confusing or surprising or something? I haven't played NS in months and there are probably a few people in the IRC channel who can't quite remember what NS <i>is</i>. This is as much a gaming community as it is a gathering place for people who play the mod.
  • HybridclawHybridclaw Join Date: 2003-11-03 Member: 22271Members
    a little bit of both

    on a side note:
    the number of guest is down to about 200 now, so it was all probably a glitch, since i doubt that over a period of about 15 minutes 800 people will all stop browing the forums simultaneously
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1635822:date=Jun 25 2007, 03:36 PM:name=Hybridclaw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Hybridclaw @ Jun 25 2007, 03:36 PM) [snapback]1635822[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    a little bit of both

    on a side note:
    the number of guest is down to about 200 now, so it was all probably a glitch, since i doubt that over a period of about 15 minutes 800 people will all stop browing the forums simultaneously
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    UNLESS WE CAUGHT THEM
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->825 guests, 17 members 0 anonymous members <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Still pretty high.
  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    <i>They're watching...</i>
  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->1080 guests, 13 members 0 anonymous members <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    We need a scare crow..
  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    Oh dear god there are a freaking horde of them. Maybe someone is showing all of his myspace friends Natural-Selection. Yeah.

    That or we're under attack. Which I've conscripted a stickman to help us.

    <img src="http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4400/totallyreadybs8.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • HybridclawHybridclaw Join Date: 2003-11-03 Member: 22271Members
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->1502 guests, 13 members 0 anonymous members <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    115 times more guests than members, makes me wonder if these are mostly people who are just too lazy to log in. Not impossible considering that there are 34,770 members in total.
  • RedfordRedford Monorailcatfjord Join Date: 2002-04-28 Member: 528Members, NS1 Playtester
    Someone could very well be attacking the forum, which is why it's been going down. Or not.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1635854:date=Jun 25 2007, 06:23 PM:name=Redford)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Redford @ Jun 25 2007, 06:23 PM) [snapback]1635854[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Someone could very well be attacking the forum, which is why it's been going down. Or not.
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    That's like stealing the identity of a hobo.

    And when I tried to post this the first time, I got a 404. Go figure.
  • CyndaneCyndane Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22913Members
    Tycho fails at posting on the forum.
  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    The Narbacular Drop site has a spike in guests as well. We only have 90, but that's a big spike from our usual 1-4.

    It's definitely something botnet related. But I doubt it's an attack. Probably some kind of phish'able exploit was found in IPB.
  • MaxMax Technical Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment Join Date: 2002-03-15 Member: 318Super Administrators, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    edited June 2007
    The Unknown Worlds site is powered by a dark magic that nobody really understands. I believe that number is tied into the guests on the main page, but I couldn't tell you exactly how (maybe nanites?).
  • ExploderExploder Join Date: 2006-11-02 Member: 58202Members
    Wow. Maybe being logged in and checking out the main page simultaneously counts as two logins. Maybe the main page users are seen as Guests and the forum users are seen as actual forum users.
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    Oh lawd.


    1530 guests, 14 members 0 anonymous members



    I would definitely say this is a bot attack.


    (Anyone got an extra Thomas Anderson lying around?)
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    What's a bot attack? Someone trying to steal our bandwidths!?
  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Im thinking bot attack too!

    Noticed a high nubmer of guests on my works site, 12. I know its not many, but when thats more users than iv seen post in the last month. If we count posts with any brain power behind them it could be a year.

    There be a storm brewing on the net.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Yahoo changed their search engine spidering technique recently, so now lots of sites (including this one) have been getting hit with tons more guests than they normally get. Yahoo's main serch engine spider will show up with a different IP address for each page they visit, confusing the IPB code into thinking they are all unique guests. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1636092:date=Jun 27 2007, 06:56 AM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Jun 27 2007, 06:56 AM) [snapback]1636092[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yahoo changed their search engine spidering technique recently, so now lots of sites (including this one) have been getting hit with tons more guests than they normally get. Yahoo's main serch engine spider will show up with a different IP address for each page they visit, confusing the IPB code into thinking they are all unique guests. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
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    Did you hear that?

    That was the sound of the fun being sucked out of this thread.

    Gg.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1636120:date=Jun 27 2007, 12:20 PM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Jun 27 2007, 12:20 PM) [snapback]1636120[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Did you hear that?

    That was the sound of the fun being sucked out of this thread.

    Gg.
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    Isn't that what I do best? I mean, besides answer the author's question? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    edited June 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1636121:date=Jun 27 2007, 11:23 AM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Jun 27 2007, 11:23 AM) [snapback]1636121[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Isn't that what I do best? I mean, besides answer the author's question? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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    I always think of you as our demographic counterweight to the 12-15 year old age group...so, being old is what you do best. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    I may be chronologically challenged, but if I'm carrying my daddy's genes of youth I'll never be old.

    Seriously, yahoo spyder bots is the correct answer. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />
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