just looked at the active mebers thing, it seeme we broke our 428 record from march with a whopping 748 users online earlier today. maybe the slump has broken

Wow, didn't notice that there are way over 600 guests around... Fancy that.

Radical!!! :m:

Well, right now I am seeing 70+ people looking at the cesspool...and 80+ looking at "About the members".

Go an draw your own conclusions from that.

dont forget the 189 in religion

I smell īthe invasion of botsī.

Get Thor and shoot him. As I distictly remember he's the evil botmaster who I wanted to linch some time ago (for no apparent evidence or whatsoever).
Always find a victim, shoot him and make the populace happy. /sneers

I just looked and it's at 721, up from 714 when I first got here. Maybe the record will broken again real soon :)

I was going to suggest giving sciforums a present by breaking the record. Oh well. Looks like it's already happened.

757
now

765 its going up all the time

who cares.

they do

768...whoa

794

Can anyone explain (in more detail) about what may be going on? What are bots?

814

Can anyone explain (in more detail) about what may be going on? What are bots?

Well, bots are little programms that scan websites for various information, for example the google advertisements on this site are appropriate for keywords picked up from the posts.

Those bots can also be used to gather email addresses or ICQ numbers and whatnot. This information would be used to spam the owners of those addresses.

But that is only a possibility. (not a very unlikely one, some days ago, spam mails started to appear on my Gmail account, and there are only three places where this email address can be read.)

Hooray for us!!!

Actually, i've been getting spam as welll.....I think we should as god about this

its down to 245 now, as for spam, yahoo has given me none watsoever :D

. . . Some days ago, spam mails started to appear on my Gmail account, and there are only three places where this email address can be read.

OMFG!!!!! I got a piece of spam in my Gmail on Monday! And my E-mail is only in a few places as well! Freekee!


Actually, i've been getting spam as welll.....I think we should as god about this

Thou rangest?

I'll tell you all how I found this forum. I was trying to fix my Yahoo account and typed in something like "yahoo help" on google, and sciforums came up. And I've been here ever since....for 2 whole weeks or so.... :)

They're watching us...

Get out man. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!!!!

Oh!! shiet it's the bush hate speeches given here constantly!.
Damn there goes our minor democracy
G.

i found sci when i was looking for some people to help me with my network configuration, i googled it and got a sciforums thread

revival:

its up at aronud 550-600 now, what causes these surges in userness

i thought that a google spider was when google was searching the posts for links relating to a search someone is doing

B\W i came here because it was a link on some old home page i was using at the time relating to UFO's (it had a news section and the link was to here)

It's about 220 now.

I don't remember exactly how I found SciForums. :(

238 now. :eek:

I think I found SciForums by serching on google for something about space. Since I was only on Dal-up then, I save the page. If only my PC hadn't been formatted a few months back (I lost all the photos of my hamsters...*sob*), then I'd be able to find that page and see what brought me here. I didn't register for a while though.

I was reasearching genetics or evolution on hotbot i think. Then i got a page on the evolution of religions, which had me curious. It went from there.

I really can't remember, it was about two years ago, and then I stopped posting for a while, mainly due to having only a dialup connection at home.