They are staring at us...

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:28 pm

At the time of this post there are about 250 unregistered users browsing the forum... why are so many people watching us without getting involved. IT'S LIKE WE'RE SOME DAMN FREAK SHOW!

Who are they? and where do they come from?

KeenCrow · Post by **KeenCrow** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:36 pm

I was one of those, actually, until a few days ago. I was basically trying to get a feel for Keenspace before I joined up. Most of the message boards I have tried to jump in on have been pretty stand-off-ish and centered around a small clique. I figured out these weren't like that, and I jumped in, and here I am. Now I just have to figure out what to make my comic about, and register for it. Actually, I'm a little embarassed I don't have a comic yet, but I had to go ahead and join. I thought maybe it would give me some good ideas.

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:41 pm

Still kinda creepy... but at least one of the masses finally shows themselves.

Carlin · Post by **Carlin** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:45 pm

The forums are bottomless wells of inspiration. BOTTOMLESS I SAY!! I can only hope that the people who are lurking are doing so so they can learn more about comics wihtout asking newbish questions that were answered in the faq or the gear. I almost asked questions like that but I lurked around a bit and learned a great deal just by observing for a while and reading damn near everything in the help forum. For those few out there who are doing this as well, I thank you.

War · Post by **War** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:47 pm

Weird, lots of guests can typically be accounted for by linkage or webcrawling bots.
I've never seen that number of guests attributable to bots so I guess someone fairly big musta linked an interesting thread somewhere in the forums.

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:53 pm

Huh... You must be right War. I mean hell we broke the "Most users on at one time" record today too. 362 users on at once earlier today. I wish I knew if someone/who linked us.

Wp · Post by Wp » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:53 pm

I usually browse these forums without logging in. That's because I leave on my computer all day with sites I usually frequent, and it'd look weird if I were on the forums 24/7.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:02 pm

wp wrote:and it'd look weird if I were on the forums 24/7.

That's never stopped anyone before. There's lots of people on chat who login, but aren't there most of the time.

Jeffy · Post by **Jeffy** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:09 pm

KeenCrow wrote:I was one of those, actually, until a few days ago. I was basically trying to get a feel for Keenspace before I joined up. Most of the message boards I have tried to jump in on have been pretty stand-off-ish and centered around a small clique. I figured out these weren't like that, and I jumped in, and here I am. Now I just have to figure out what to make my comic about, and register for it. Actually, I'm a little embarassed I don't have a comic yet, but I had to go ahead and join. I thought maybe it would give me some good ideas.

well, at this point (hopefully will change soon) I only have a comic as a technicallity since I haven't worked on it in a long time, and yet all these people still bow down before my might, therefore, you need not have a comic to be extra crunchy, special good

War · Post by **War** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:17 pm

The other possibility is that the forum time screwed up, that's what set the previous record, but the fact that it didn't affect anything else makes me think that the linkage thing is most likely.
Like the time the chibi thread got linked, only by someone bigger this time.

Corgan_dane · Post by **Corgan_dane** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:24 pm

(sets up motion detectors)

We'll catch 'em all!

(Waits with a big net)

Driving Without Pants · Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:25 pm

WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR!!?

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:26 pm

We need one of these people to sign up for an account just to tell us where they all came from.

Kisai, mallet goddess of Space, demands it .

Rhellik · Post by **Rhellik** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:06 pm

isnt there something like a "referrer log" for keenspace? maybe we could ask kisai to check that out

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:28 pm

Hope it doesn't mean Weekend Webbed.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:40 pm

I managed to catch one at the last moment, he managed to say "...outside..." before he suffocated from lack of air.

Protectmyballs · Post by **Protectmyballs** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:52 pm

I accidentaly shot one in the back of the throat, I was aiming at the legs. I figured we could question it. Oh well.

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:59 pm

One of them might have been me checking the forums on another computer where I'm not logged on. Can't explain the other 249, though.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:08 pm

Maybe they'll read this thread and someone will sign up to explain everything to us.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:30 pm

Most of the lurkers are just girls checking out me and McDuffies.