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#278228 - 25/03/2006 14:32 What are you afraid of???
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 527
Loc: Oklahoma
Everytime I get on the board here, I notice that there are more anoym. users than users that are identified. Right now, there are no reg users except for myself but 40 'hiding' users. Man! I did not know that everyone was so damn important that they were afriad to be identified... and I don't think that there are always 40 non registered users checking out the board!
What is everyone's trip with hiding? What is it that I do not understand?

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#278229 - 25/03/2006 15:16 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
They might be Bots and Spiders, possibly.
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#278230 - 25/03/2006 16:07 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: pgrzelak]
matthew_k
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Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
Yeah, the current "person" is either an extremely fast reader or a bot.

Matthew

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#278231 - 25/03/2006 16:08 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: matthew_k]
matthew_k
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Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
Which means, soon enough "what are you afraid of" on google will point right to this thread.

Matthew

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#278232 - 25/03/2006 16:09 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
Oh, I thought this was going to be a different kind of thread. Then my answer would be women with moustaches...

Bruno
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#278233 - 25/03/2006 16:44 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: hybrid8]
DWallach
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 3810
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Then my answer would be women with moustaches...

Changing stinky diapers.

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#278234 - 25/03/2006 18:34 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: DWallach]
visuvius
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Registered: 18/02/2002
Posts: 658
Rottweilers scare the hell out of me.

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#278235 - 25/03/2006 18:36 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
Tim
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Registered: 25/04/2000
Posts: 1529
Loc: Arizona
"I'm afraid of spiders, coach."

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#278236 - 25/03/2006 18:54 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
eliceo
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Registered: 18/02/2002
Posts: 335
im just a lurker

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#278237 - 25/03/2006 20:14 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
time
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Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
Perhaps nothing. Sometimes I'm just too lazy to login...Funny though, I've been puzzling about the same thing of late.

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#278238 - 25/03/2006 20:36 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
Mataglap
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Registered: 11/06/2003
Posts: 384
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Everytime I get on the board here, I notice that there are more anoym. users than users that are identified. Right now, there are no reg users except for myself but 40 'hiding' users. Man! I did not know that everyone was so damn important that they were afriad to be identified... and I don't think that there are always 40 non registered users checking out the board!
What is everyone's trip with hiding? What is it that I do not understand?


I don't see why it's a big deal, or why you even bring it up. It's hardly a feature to be able to see who's reading a web page at any particular moment.

--Nathan

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#278239 - 25/03/2006 22:14 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
That is not people hiding. That is people who are reading without being logged in. In most cases they are spiders from Google, Yahoo or others indexing the site. They use a ton of different hosts to do it, and right now it looks like it is two different bots scanning. I can tell from their pretty close IP ranges.

I'm beginning to think this needs to go into the board FAQ, it seems to come up every 6 months or so.

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#278240 - 25/03/2006 22:22 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Mataglap]
lectric
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Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
I like the feature when I post a question. It's nice to see if/when people are reading it. It's even nicer to see that they are responding right after they read it. That means if I hang on a few more minutes, I may have an answer.

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#278241 - 25/03/2006 22:29 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: lectric]
lectric
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Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, if they were "hidden" identities, they simply wouldn't show up. Not even as anonymous.

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#278242 - 26/03/2006 21:38 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: Ladmo]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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But were it the thread that I expected, I'd say:
I'm afraid of surprise. "Scary movies" nearly give me multiple heart attacks. If you jump out from behind a corner to scare me, I'll hit you so fast you'll never see it coming; simply by reflex.
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#278243 - 27/03/2006 06:29 Re: What are you afraid of??? [Re: FireFox31]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Quote:
ask'd
But were it the thread that I expected, I'd say:
I'm afraid of surprise. "Scary movies" nearly give me multiple heart attacks. If you jump out from behind a corner to scare me, I'll hit you so fast you'll never see it coming; simply by reflex.

Boo! *duck*

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