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Cpuswe
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 Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:52 am Post subject: What happened Tue Dec 07, 2004? |
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Tue Dec 07, 2004 there where 289 people online here at CPU-world according to statistics at the bottom on the main forum page. Im just curious what was going on since there are just 260 members. There must have been a lot of guests... Or the counter just failed?
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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No, the counter is correct. I think it was some kind of spambot that used multiple open proxies to scrap the contents of the site, including forum.
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xsecret
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| The_Mad wrote: | | This bug is often due to a server time change. Ghost session remained up for hours. |
There were actually 289 or so requests during that time period. I was so surprised by this big number of visitors that I went through web logs and saw many hits from different IP addresses. After checking first 10 that turned out to be open proxies, and judging by the access pattern it was pretty clear it was a spambot. Later I checked web statistics (awstats) for that day and found that the site received more than 1000 extra visitors.
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chipcollector
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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I don't want to make a new topic and waste space. Gshv, I think you should make an offtopic forum. We should make a poll or something, people who have off topic questions are getting their threads locked.
Also "Cpu-World" isn't very good at showing new visiters that this site is infact a vintage chip site; if you saw cpu-world for the first time you'd probably think the same thing.
When you lock a new guy's topic, it's like saying "Welcome to CPU-World. Sorry, we don't offer help for computer related problem's." |
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| chipcollector wrote: | | I don't want to make a new topic and waste space. Gshv, I think you should make an offtopic forum. We should make a poll or something, people who have off topic questions are getting their threads locked. |
It's not necessary to make a poll for this. We already had a couple of requests for Offtopic forum, yours request is third, so I'll go ahead a create Offtopic forum in the next two days.
| Quote: | Also "Cpu-World" isn't very good at showing new visiters that this site is infact a vintage chip site; if you saw cpu-world for the first time you'd probably think the same thing.
When you lock a new guy's topic, it's like saying "Welcome to CPU-World. Sorry, we don't offer help for computer related problem's." |
I usually don't care when people post hardware related questions, and if you noticed, I even replied to some of them. As you may have also noticed, I always try to state the reason of locking the thread and I put either my name or "Admin" in the thread. Don't forget that I'm not the only person on this forum who has moderator privileges. The only thread locked by me recently was a thread "game screen size" that has nothing to do with hardware, and it was locked after the original poster replied with sarcastic remark. I deleted this remark in an attempt to avoid a potential flame war.
BTW, I'm glad that you brought this to everybody's attention. I want to ask moderators to take it easy and not to lock hardware-related questions. Another idea - maybe in addition to Offtopic forum we need to create Hardware forum as well.
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| chiptalk wrote: | | For some, it might be nice to have an off topic forum for collectors to talk about other things, but it would require extra management/moderation. |
True, it will require extra management.
| Quote: | | Most of the time collectors can post off topic things in the general discussion area. If an official off topic forum was created, it shouldn't be promoted as a general forum. |
Do you mean to make it for registers users only?
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CPUShack
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chipcollector
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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If you'd like, I will volunteer to moderate the offtopic forums. I would be honored  |
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| CPUShack wrote: | Forums to add:
Hardware/Software Discussion |
I didn't see much software discussions lately... I guess it won't hurt to add "Software" to the forum title.
| Quote: | | General Discussion |
I prefer "Off Topic" as we already have general discussion forum.
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| chipcollector wrote: | | If you'd like, I will volunteer to moderate the offtopic forums. I would be honored |
There are currently four people with moderator privileges - me, chiptalk, CPUShack and Frassl. I think we can handle two extra forums. If not we'll ask for help.
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chipcollector
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Jeez, sorry I asked.  |
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gshv
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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In my opinion Hardware/Software forum should be open - as other discussion forums. I'm not sure about Off Topic forum- do I need to make it open or for registered users only?
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chipcollector
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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See how it says "Sale/Trade Area (other chips and chip-related items)"?
If you can add another one of those sub forum sections, make it "Off-Topic Discussion", because basically that's what it is. And underthat, just like you'd normally have "For Sale/Trade and Want to Buy", put something like "Hardware/Software Forums" and something like "Completely Off Topic". |
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