29-06-2023, 07:03 PM
Damien
Yes I do. The visitor numbers may be comprised of a number of registered users/'people' who don't log in, but many are search engine 'bots' and referrals from the search engines because there may be a tentative match between a search term, or part thereof, and the content on the AHRDF site. Those latter "visitors" are not why the Forum exists.
You may wonder why it is important to me. Well the reason for that is that I expend money and time in running the forum and I do not want to waste either if the forum is not going to be used for its intended purpose : to act as a medium to distribute information of interest to amateur radio operators, and to provide a forum for their discussion. Visitors are generally not going to provide anything of interest to the forum or its users, so I do not see value in taking those numbers into account.
I do have the option of making visitors actually log in to see content, just like the old VKLogger forum did for at least part of its time. I don't want to force the issue but not doing so makes it impossible to determine real visitors from everything else. The IP addresses of all visitors is logged, logged in or not, but the only ready or easy way to determine who-is-who is to see the list of user's callsigns.
So lack of posts equals inactivity equals a waste of resources. Back some years ago, there was a call about the ham bands : 'Use it or lose it", and the same principle applies to this forum.
Doug, admin
Yes I do. The visitor numbers may be comprised of a number of registered users/'people' who don't log in, but many are search engine 'bots' and referrals from the search engines because there may be a tentative match between a search term, or part thereof, and the content on the AHRDF site. Those latter "visitors" are not why the Forum exists.
You may wonder why it is important to me. Well the reason for that is that I expend money and time in running the forum and I do not want to waste either if the forum is not going to be used for its intended purpose : to act as a medium to distribute information of interest to amateur radio operators, and to provide a forum for their discussion. Visitors are generally not going to provide anything of interest to the forum or its users, so I do not see value in taking those numbers into account.
I do have the option of making visitors actually log in to see content, just like the old VKLogger forum did for at least part of its time. I don't want to force the issue but not doing so makes it impossible to determine real visitors from everything else. The IP addresses of all visitors is logged, logged in or not, but the only ready or easy way to determine who-is-who is to see the list of user's callsigns.
So lack of posts equals inactivity equals a waste of resources. Back some years ago, there was a call about the ham bands : 'Use it or lose it", and the same principle applies to this forum.
Doug, admin
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http://www.vk4adc.com
This Forum is only going to be as interesting as the posts it contains.
If you have a comment or question, post it as it may trigger or answer the query in someone else's mind.