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Tech10B
03-15-2002, 10:43 AM
I been watching a somewhat active board get a steady and not so random number of users perday....over 2000 users have 0 posts.....and the per day registration is about 28. I compared these numbers to a more active board with less users and more advertising......and found lower numbers. There is no way this board is getting 30+ people a day to register and never post. ANy ideas?

Admin
03-15-2002, 11:35 AM
Tech10B, please go to this (http://www.vbulletin.com/members/vbulletin.org.php) page and enter your username, to show you are licensed. (you will need to use your customer number and password to access that page)
Thank you.

Tech10B
03-15-2002, 11:48 AM
I am not a customer, I don't run a board, or a site or anything. I observed something fishy with a boards registered posters and wanted to ask a question.....my brain told me to goto THE Vbulletin site, which led me to THIS Vbulletin Hack Site, where I asked my first and only question....why do I need to verify anything to ask a question....I am not looking for support, I am looking for a pool of knowledgable Vbulletin people, which I am not, to ask one lousy question that's been bugging me. If a VBulletin license was required to post here maybe that should be taken care of before I was allowed to entertain the notion of a reply, cause I been waiting and this glimmer of hope that I had...in your reply....has turned out to be the opposite :( *sniff*

Admin
03-15-2002, 11:51 AM
I'm sorry, I read your post and thought you were looking for a hack that does what you described.
It's not a problem really to take the number of users up, it's just adding "+10000" in one file and you're done. Take a look at the Member List, you should see the real number of users there.

Tech10B
03-15-2002, 11:57 AM
Thanks, sorry to get sniffy haha, its been bugging me. I actually went through the members list and counted the members one by one by searching with no fields and sorting by date joined.....the user names are somewhat random and sometimes variations on other names I have noticed that have 0 posts. NOt close enough in register date to be someone trying out a few names...I guess they are doing it by hand. Thanks for the info though. and sorry again to pull out the sad face heh