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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15885 on: July 04, 2016, 02:59:09 AM »
Ikea, I love the hat!

Juniper, how do you make that 'users online' thing work, please?
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15886 on: July 04, 2016, 03:00:37 AM »
Yeeah I have a tendency to go and stalk the Users Online list and see what everyone's doing. Mainly to see if anyone is posting anything when I don't have anymore unread topics.

And I'm up really late so:


Happy Fourth of July! 

I sometimes check the forum while logged out, and I know someone else who checks it too, so not all of the guests are outsiders...I haven't explored who's looking at what thread though...I"d make a terrible spy.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15887 on: July 04, 2016, 04:05:17 AM »
Juniper, how do you make that 'users online' thing work, please?
I'm not Juniper, but you have to click on the numbers of users/guests online :) Then at your right, you can chose to see everyone, members only or guests only.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15888 on: July 04, 2016, 04:10:36 AM »
you have to click on the numbers of users/guests online

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15889 on: July 04, 2016, 04:17:22 AM »
Thanks, Mélusine!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15890 on: July 04, 2016, 08:42:35 AM »
Happy 4th of July!

Yes, this is as patriotic as I can possibly be. :P
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15891 on: July 04, 2016, 11:55:38 AM »
*detonates a quarter ****ton of fireworks because i couldn't afford a half ton this year* happy fourth!

Now go celebrate the founding of my country by blowing a small portion of it!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15892 on: July 04, 2016, 12:06:38 PM »
and Britain left the EU.
Frankly, I don't consider that a done deed before some representative of the British government plonked the actual formal request on the EU's table. (And maybe not even then; I seem to remember that, while the EU is prevented from stalling an exit by the two-years-after auto-shutdown, the nation in question is allowed to retract the request at any time.)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15893 on: July 04, 2016, 12:33:08 PM »
Happy 4th to everyone here in the US!!!
(Most fireworks are illegal in Colorado, sadly. That doesn't stop us from driving up to Wyoming, buying a stash, hiding them in the car and coming back here.... Shhh! I never said anything! That has never happened!) So... what was I talking about again? Normal, not at all suspicious/illegal things? Good, good.

And on the topic of lurking, I do that sometimes when I'm too lazy to log in. And the Users Online list seems strangely tempting- I didn't know you could do that. Is it creepy if I now want to go check that out?
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15894 on: July 04, 2016, 01:55:48 PM »
but at any given time there's about 2-3 times more guests online browsing the forum than registered forumites which I find to be a bit daunting for some reason. So many lurkers . . then again I know sometimes I'll check the forum on my phone without bothering to log in so some of it could be others too lazy to log in but just kinda wanna see what's up.

At any given time 1/2 to 2/3 of the "guests" browsing the forum are "spiders" or search engine bots indexing our site. Mostly Google spiders. (f.ex. right now there are 32 guests on the forum, 22 of which are these spiders) We have a list that shows us how many spider bots and search engines are browsing our site at a time. It's nothing to worry about, it just means we've been googled or linked to something. :)

Also spiders can't browse individual profiles or any of the private sections of the forum.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15895 on: July 04, 2016, 02:06:22 PM »
At any given time 1/2 to 2/3 of the "guests" browsing the forum are "spiders" or search engine bots indexing our site. Mostly Google spiders. (f.ex. right now there are 32 guests on the forum, 22 of which are these spiders) We have a list that shows us how many spider bots and search engines are browsing our site at a time. It's nothing to worry about, it just means we've been googled or linked to something. :)

Also spiders can't browse individual profiles or any of the private sections of the forum.

That's actually kind of neat. A bunch of virtual spiders running around the forum  :P

Oh, this is creepy and awesome! :D
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You're not the only one who creeps the online list. ;p I tend to do it when I'm bored. Or if I post something that I think will be especially relevant to a particular person's interest, and want to know when they're looking at it (is that weird? It's probably weird).

A lot of the "guests" are probably bots, though. But I'm sure some of them are also lurkers/logged-out forumites as well.
Nah I wouldn't say that's weird, if anything it's endearing that you want people to see something that'd interest them :3


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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15896 on: July 04, 2016, 06:13:05 PM »
My cousin found my fan fiction account and is now scrolling through old bad fanfiction what do I do how do I stop him without killing him
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15897 on: July 04, 2016, 06:35:55 PM »
My cousin found my fan fiction account and is now scrolling through old bad fanfiction what do I do how do I stop him without killing him
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« Reply #15898 on: July 04, 2016, 06:41:00 PM »
Find their fan fiction account. MAD

He doesn't have one I just checked. And he just sent it to every other cousin I own.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15899 on: July 04, 2016, 06:58:38 PM »
He doesn't have one I just checked. And he just sent it to every other cousin I own.

I am so sorry wow I would probably blow a gasket if anyone I knew IRL found my AO3 account.

Would changing your name do anything or would the link they're spreading around stay the same ?


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