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Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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Wed, 28 May 2003 05:19:04 GMT
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> I've often wondered how representative the quoted membership numbers
> are. I remember hearing about instances of people signing up for multiple
> accounts so they could stuff the ballot boxes during prize-awarding MOC
> contests.
All of those were found and deleted. Cheating and bribery taking place during
MOC contests are treated very seriously at BZP.
> There might also be 'dead' accounts still on the list where the
> member has been banned or left for other reasons.
Banned accounts are not added to the membership total. We have just over 200
banned members. The price of success, I suppose.
> And there are also a
> large number of accounts that have never been used at all after being
> activated. My guess would be that the member tally comes from an internal
> membership ID assigned to keep track of who posted what, rather than being a
> hard count of everyone who actually posts or logs in.
Many people sign up for BZP and never post. However, as I saw in the Rahkshi
contest we held last week, many of those people who you would think are dead
accounts just prefer not to post. They entered the contest eventhough the never
posted. We're getting about 12,000 unique visitors with a day now, so some 5,000
people who read BZP daily have never even bothered to join, nevermind post. I
know I've seen your IP ghosting the forums too.
> but they're also known to
> have problems with pointless post inflation by people trying to upgrade
> their sidebar icons and such.
I dunno about that. I treat spam very seriously and all spam posts are deleted
when found. When the post is deleted, that post is deducted from the member's
post count, and from the forum total for that day. No "pointless" posts get
through unless one of my 20+ mods miss them. Even if they do, they represent
less than 3% of those totaled on average.
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> Besides, _NOBODY_ can claim to be the most popular LEGO-based site
That wasn't the claim. The claim is that BZP forum is the most popular
LEGO-based forum on the net. In terms of posts per day, with more than 3,000 at
BZP, that is still unrivaled -- even by Lego.com
I must say that the topic starter's point is moot. BZP is in no way looking to
compete with Lugnet. If anything, I am guessing Lugnet is glad BZP takes those
12 year old Bionicle lovers someplace else.
--Rich
BZPower Administrator
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 | | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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| the main thing i was saying was that i dont post to much here anymore because i have to go to my hotmail to get it to work. i wasnt saying that BZP is struggling with Lugnet or anything like that. i just would like to be able to post and be done (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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| (...) And during giveaways? How sure are you that noone has an extra chance or two in the lottery draws? (...) How many? It hardly seems fair to rank the popularity of your forum based on people who haven't even participated in it. (...) But the (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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| (...) I've often wondered how representative the quoted membership numbers are. I remember hearing about instances of people signing up for multiple accounts so they could stuff the ballot boxes during prize-awarding MOC contests. There might also (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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