Shutting down forums at 5pm

[Gantry]

Wow, very cool feature!   

Note that a lot of the guest shit is crazy because they are search engines poking around the site.  They are computers looking at all the pages & links, google & msn are a decent percentage of my hits on dee-nee proper...

[ultimate7]

Wow, very cool feature!

Note that a lot of the guest shit is crazy because they are search engines poking around the site. They are computers looking at all the pages & links, google & msn are a decent percentage of my hits on dee-nee proper...

This doesn't really explain the printing of topics by Guests which I am finding to be fairly common, what are they doing printing to screen, is this how they archive it somehow?

Example added:

Guest  03:28:47 PM Printing the topic "Computer Play!".
Guest  03:28:18 PM Viewing the topic Computer Play!.
Guest  03:27:53 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:27:45 PM Printing the topic "Fantasy RBI Baseball - OFFICIAL DRAFT THREAD".
Guest  03:27:44 PM Viewing the topic Fantasy RBI Baseball - OFFICIAL DRAFT THREAD.
Guest  03:27:35 PM Viewing the topic Computer Play!.
Guest  03:27:27 PM Viewing the topic Computer Play!.
Guest  03:26:57 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:26:36 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:25:57 PM Printing the topic "RBI's All-Time Team - C". Guest  03:25:08 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:24:32 PM Printing the topic "RBI Variations".

[nightwulf]

This doesn't really explain the printing of topics by Guests which I am finding to be fairly common, what are they doing printing to screen, is this how they archive it somehow?

It's possible, as the page generated by clicking "print" is much cleaner and more suitable for search engines. That said, I doubt any of the various webcrawlers used by search engines make that kind of distinction. They'd have to be able to identify when they're viewing pages generated by SMF software. This seems trivial, and it probably is, but remember that they'd need to make similar distinctions for every application commonly found that generates web content.

What's more likely is that they're simply following links. The main function of a webcrawler is to open and parse every link it ever finds. A "print" link is included on every topic page, and thus will be opened by any webcrawler looking for more information.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

Exactly what nightwulf said, the crawlers typically follow every link on a page (unless excluded by a robots.txt file on the webserver, which I don't use).   One of those links is the print link, hence the "print" activity when you look.  No actual printing is done, mind you, just a computer going to the print link and recording the info that is sent back...

[BeefMaster]

Spotted just now:

Guest      03:43:53 PM     Printing the topic "Offical Hot Chicks Thread and Liquor Thread (NSFW!!!)".

Must need some, um, bathroom reading.

[Flood]

Beefmaster      03:43:53 PM     Printing the topic "Offical Hot Chicks Thread and Liquor Thread (NSFW!!!)".

Fucking explain yourself Beef...pervert.

[ultimate7]

So it's officially been over a year since the new time stats have been kept, about 371 days now and BDawk has spent over 51 full days out of the 371 on Dee-Nee, over 13% of all of his time.  Impressive.

[Bonny]

I think the time online thing started sometime in Nov '04.

[BDawk]

So it's officially been over a year since the new time stats have been kept, about 371 days now and BDawk has spent over 51 full days out of the 371 on Dee-Nee, over 13% of all of his time.  Impressive.

I'm nor really here all the time. I'm just on the internet all the time and I never log out. I'm pretty sure that keeps my tally counting. I wish I had time to just sit and stare at dee-nee all day, but sadly no.

[Attezz]

If I hadn't deleted my account like a vagina, I'd be right there with you, I think that everytime you hit a forum link it counts as at least fifteen minutes whether you log in or out, whenever I'm on the internet I check out dee-nee, so my timer's always counting.

[ultimate7]

I think that everytime you hit a forum link it counts as at least fifteen minutes whether you log in or out, whenever I'm on the internet I check out dee-nee, so my timer's always counting.

I don't think this is true because I'm in and out all the time for just a minute or 2, and I don't rack up much time

[Attezz]

My bad, I know that sometimes at work I get logged out and when I check in as a guest it still shows my name as active, which kinda freaks me out.