[jamesf4218]

Originally Posted by Opserty

How do you know they are banned anyway? There isn't a way to differentiate between a legitimate guest and a banned user until they login in.

This is not true. If you ban someone by IP they will get an error message the moment they try and view a page.

Originally Posted by Opserty

You could just add them to the Banned IP list in the "vBulletin Options" of your AdminCP, if you are really concerned, whether this will affect the total I don't know.

This has been done but they still show up in the guest list total.

Originally Posted by Opserty

Anyway why do you want to reduce the number of visitors? It would make more sense to leave it as it, I doubt many of your members will be that concerned that the number is 5 to high, let alone if they notice it or even read it!

They didn't just notice it, they were the ones that brought it up. I just used 5 as an example to illustrate the problem. We actually have a rogue crawler that keeps visiting our site, 50 bots at a time, thus adding 50 non guests to the online guest total which looks stupid.

There must be a way to amend the code to discount users who have been banned, from counting towards the online guest total?