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Offline B Hanson

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Forum Traffic
« on: April 27, 2024, 06:40:50 PM »
I've never seen consistent forum traffic like this, besides big releases or other notable events. I'm seeing 200-300 users/day. Is this bots or is there an increase in new user/unregistered activity? If it's new users how do we engage them more effectively? If it's something else, what is it?
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Offline jdale

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Re: Forum Traffic
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2024, 09:07:46 PM »
You can see what people are reading: https://ironcrown.co.uk/ICEforums/index.php?action=who;sort=time;show=all;start=0

It doesn't feel completely organic to me, but without the logs that's all I can say.
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Online Cory Magel

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Re: Forum Traffic
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2024, 12:15:17 AM »
Everything being viewed right now when I checked were a couple dozen forums opened only 3 to 6 seconds apart.
I'd bet a whole lot of money those are bots.
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Re: Forum Traffic
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2024, 11:47:14 AM »
Add a link to a honey pot in the header.   Make sure it's not visible to humans.   Ban/slow anyone who touches the honeypot.
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