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Guests in Place

Post by Paws » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:26 pm

I'm pretty sure this has been covered before... But there appears to be alot of 'guests' that are lurking around in place? I know it is meant to be members only so just wondered how it could happen. I know anybody can sign up and read places anyway so it may be a mute point, but it is a little disconcerting to see. :oconf:

I think there were 20 on when I last looked. I did a screen dump to show but don't know if/how to put it on here!

Right, off to do some spam busting :)
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Re: Guests in Place

Post by kiwi33 » Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:18 am

Hmm, that is strange.

As an experiment, I have just logged off (so I appear as "guest") and, as "guest", can't see any of the members-only parts of the board.

My guess is that the place-guests are users who are in the process of registering an account.

Probably most of them are spammers.
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Re: Guests in Place

Post by strmdncr » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:13 am

Is it also possible that some of the guests may be people who don't want their name to show when they are online?
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Re: Guests in Place

Post by herebedragons » Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:25 am

Yes, I'm pretty sure that registered users who choose to not show up are shown as "guests".
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Re: Guests in Place

Post by ChaseThisLight » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:01 am

My guess is you are viewing the "who's viewing this forum" mid account deletion for spammers. Guest is what is used for people who are no longer registered instead of "former member". If people choose not to be viewed, nothing is viewed, not even the word Guest. They are in "stealth mode" (to everyone but the admins).
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Re: Guests in Place

Post by Paws » Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:28 am

Ah, I've only just caught up with this post :o
Thanks for clearing that up for me ChaseThisLight, it makes sense now :D
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