What's With All The Guests?

[Javaman]

This doesn't seem normal, especially for a Sunday morning at 7:30 A.M. (we'll see how long it takes to gather and collate the numbers) Eastern Daylight Time, US. There a large number of visitors here and it's weirding me out. Is there some sort of conspiracy? Here's a compilation of the forums and who was on when I started typing (I'll take myself out as a viewer of each forum):

Mem. Vis. Tot.
0 2 2
1 13 14
0 3 3
0 7 7
0 2 2
0 2 2
1 10 11
0 5 5
0 9 9
0 10 10
1 14 15
0 8 8
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3 85 88

Add me in and that makes 4 - 85 - 88. The numbers probably moved around a bit during my clicking even thought I opened each forum up in a new tab in sequence but -- Freaky, methinks.

No?

[livius drusus]

They're almost all search engine spiders, in this case Yahoo Slurp! spiders. If you look at Who's Online, we've set it to identify search engines so you can tell which guests are people and which bots.

[Javaman]

So I can take of my tinfoil sombrero?

[livius drusus]

Only if you promise to dance around it. :mariachi:

[Javaman]

My wife makes me dance if I've been bad -- or she just needs a good laugh. Apparently it's funnier if the front curtains are open... :sadyup:

[Legs]

Better bots than those damnable smilie rustlers :shakefist:

[MonCapitan2002]

They're almost all search engine spiders, in this case Yahoo Slurp! spiders. If you look at Who's Online, we've set it to identify search engines so you can tell which guests are people and which bots.
That is a shame. It would be nice if they were people. We could always use new members.