Ambivalence wrote:
MathGirl wrote:
aghogday wrote:
So could it be possible that many of those accounts that appear to be spammers with zero posts are members with banned accounts, if they have been caught spamming members by PM? If that is the case, I don't see any harm or much problems in deleting them, but if they are banned, I'm not sure what real harm it does for the account to stay on the server.
The only problem these empty accounts really create is an inflated member count. It would be nice to know how many
actual members WP has.
And how many lurkers there are, which is harder.
It might be useful to see a graph of number-of-members-online against time.
Good point, it might be the most accurate way to determine if site usage is actually going up or going down. I wonder if the software provides a report like that? If not, I wonder if any of the long term members can remember how the online numbers progressed as they have been here.
Just from my memory I've seen it as low as 800 and as high as 1600, and I've been here for about 5 months. If I had to guess, I would think the actual people using the site may not have changed much for a long time now. People come and go all the time. That is evident from the statistics provided in the post.
01 May 2011, 7:33 pm
