In case you were also wondering

Jacklitsch · #1 05-13-2009, 02:33 PM

Well, I'm sitting around doing nothing, trying to figure out why our newest member CON40 is number 862 yet there are only 844 active members.

The answer lies in the thread catagories. net54baseball.com is Leon and is, as we would expect, number 1. Then the main with each of its subsets has a "member" number as well as the BST and each of its subsets and the postwar board and each of its subsets. The total of all these is 18 and that explains the difference.

I have to get a life!

member 31

marvjung · #2 05-13-2009, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jacklitsch

Well, I'm sitting around doing nothing, trying to figure out why our newest member CON40 is number 862 yet there are only 844 active members.

The answer lies in the thread catagories. net54baseball.com is Leon and is, as we would expect, number 1. Then the main with each of its subsets has a "member" number as well as the BST and each of its subsets and the postwar board and each of its subsets. The total of all these is 18 and that explains the difference.

I have to get a life!

member 31

So that means we all have variations???!!! Imagine the irony.......

slantycouch · #3 05-13-2009, 06:19 PM

I run a vBulletin messageboard where the next user is around 4800, but we only have 900 members. I get approximately 10-20 "fake" signups each day from spammers, etc. As they are deleted, user number climbs, but registered users falls. That may also explain some of it.

Leon · #4 05-13-2009, 06:24 PM

Thanks for reaffirming what I have seen. I have about 30 in total that have been spam type registrations. My problem/solution is that I need to put the good members that don't register the correct way into the group of banned people that include the spammers. Then when they ask I tell them why and it's ok. It's hard to explain unless you go through it.....but that is why I am being a bit strict on the confirmation emails....and maybe why a few have voted they don't like the new board. We'll never please everyone....

slantycouch · #5 05-13-2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Leon

Thanks for reaffirming what I have seen. I have about 30 in total that have been spam type registrations. My problem/solution is that I need to put the good members that don't register the correct way into the group of banned people that include the spammers. Then when they ask I tell them why and it's ok. It's hard to explain unless you go through it.....but that is why I am being a bit strict on the confirmation emails....and maybe why a few have voted they don't like the new board. We'll never please everyone....

There are some tricks of the trade to cut down on those spam regs. Unfortunately the number of fake registrations will go up as time goes on. There are some tricks of the trade to avoid them. Shoot me a PM if you want info!

Kotton King · #6 05-13-2009, 06:48 PM

So, just out of curiosity, how do you view your member number?