Club Arnage

Right now, as is so often the case these days, the ratio of guests to users  on line is about 10 to 1 in favour of the guests.  I'm sure it used to be the other way about!  What's going on?

Somebody recently post that these were "Spy Bots" or something like that? I will always have a quick check without login on so will feature as a guest.   

As often as not they are "search bots" i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing etc etc etc

I was looking in a guest just now but I've loggen on so as not to scare you Debs. I don't want to be regarded as any kind of Bot ;D

the powers that be read  this stuff and make arrangments to make us all happy.hello aco fia all ferry companies racing drivers and breweries .listen to the voices.i do.

A garybot?

doesn't bear thinking about

oh no

:)

 ;D
At the moment I'm alone with 63 guests.... Ooo,er!

What's the advantage of looking around as a guest but not logging in?  What harm can these bots do, if any?

You know in Greek the word for 'guest' is also the same word for 'stranger'... xenos. As in 'xenophobia', the fear and hatred of guests.

Just had to Log-in for the first time since I joined 2 years ago, and after that amount of time usernames and passwords are a distant memory. Good old paper, pen and secret scrap of paper, saved me from being another guest stastistic. However I have noticed a massive drop in enthusiasm this year. Didn't know there were so many Peugeot fans in the club.

I believe that the Muslims have a saying that "An unexpected guest is a gift from God" which means that if I ever turn up at your door looking for a free meal, I'm not a scrounger, I'm a gift from God :angel:

The post "You know in Greek the word for 'guest'...etc" was a quote from Flanders and Swann "At the drop of a Hat". I just wondered if there was anyone else on here old enough to remember F&S!

Aw, Gary.   We knew that all along, of course. ;D

Mr Hod, I get the impression that many members communicate more through Facebook these days.  Whilst I find that OK, I admit I have little interest in what my "friends" had for dinner or, worse still, what their kids had.  Thus I still visit this place rather more but the interest has dropped off a lot, as you say, so sometimes it's like talking to yourself (or, rather 60-odd "people" you don't know, lurking in the backgroud and saying nothing!)

I'm still listening  ;D

I'm not    ;D

certainly not a farcebook user though

I'm here too... ;)

MG Mark

Me to ;D

Me too, but who are the 51 other

I'm still here as well.

Termie's correct, FB contains a lot of stuff that used to be on the site, but usually the less important not LM related 'chatty' stuff.
Old tech still has it's place, and I'm sure this is a temporary lull until people realise that if you want concise info, then a specialist website like this is still the place to go to.

Like what everybody's kids (or grand kids) had for breakfast! >:D

Precisely

I'm in here most days too.

Me too

Facebook is no substitute for CA as far as I'm concerned (probably cause I don't do Facebook  :))

I don't like Facebook either. Can't see the point unless you have a fabulous and interesting life. I don't have either so I don't bother.

I'm sure this has been covered before.  "Guests" are not only people who visit the site without logging on but they are also the Search engine that crawl the site from time to time.

I have just had a look and lot of the Guests have IP addresses  180.76.5.176  the FQDN for that site is baiduspider-180-76-5-176.crawl.baidu.com this is a Chinese site.

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I don't do facebook either, I can't be arsed to share info about my life with people who don't even know me,  the ones that need to know do so via one means or another.

I use to check in at least 5 times a week to, and I use the auto login so it is not me  :angel:

Hi Grand Fromage,
                        " It was on the Monday morning the Gasman came to call"   so Yes  ;D
Canada Phil

"Mud, mud glorious mud, nothing quite like it for cooling the blood"

The hippo would be welcome at LM on a wet year

I'm still about although other commitments mean I don't get here anywhere as near as often as I used to ....