To Jordan: Is GTPlanet acting up?

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Well reading your signature, I thought it would be better to post out here.

I think the site is acting up, because earlier I saw 100 people viewing the Rumble Strip, and 50 people viewing the Site Feedback sub-forums. That is definately not normal. Also I saw about 250 people viewing Gran Turismo 4 sub-forum, so I think something is wrong.

Is there a problem with GTPlanet, Jordan? And is anyone else expieriencing this? Also suddenly many ads just poop up out of nowhere.
 
I actually also think GTP is acting up... 30 odd guests viewing site feedback if just weird. But maybe, just maybe it IS real lol. :D
 
100 people viewing the rumble strip is normal when you consider that 80% of them are search bots. Most of them aren't particularly bright either, and sometimes you can end up with like 10 of the same bot crawling the same site at once. Happens a lot with Yahoo.

You don't get to be 9th in google under the search terms "gran turismo" without near-constant supervision from their robots. You just don't see them because Jordan has disabled guests appearing in the online status page.
 
CNG
MistaX is most definately not "deleted."

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15

See as he posted there, I don't get it. :confused:
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That user account was deleted. That isn't necessarily the same as our current MistaX.

This all occurred years before I even joined GTP and almost 6 years ago. I'm curious what it has to do with there being 100 people viewing the Rumble Strip now...
 
I was asking if GTP was acting up, because I have seen alot of strange things. This is just another strange thing that I didn't know about, until now. :)

How long does it take for an account to be deleted if you don't mind me asking?

So back on the first topic. How do bots do all this? Are they actual robots or just called bots?

Is there any way to stop them at all? They are taking over the internet, trust me, just go into ONE AIM chatroom.

Earlier I saw a post that said something like last poster was -Diego-, then when I clicked it, Solid Lifter's posted last, and -Diego-'s post was made about an hour ago from the time I checked, and Solid Lifters made one a few minutes after that. Also when people sign off GTP, it doesn't show offline until 40 minutes later. :indiff:

This is just a thread about problems that I have been expieriencing. Also GTP sometimes just closes out of nowhere when I'm reading a post, or just going to a Link, it just X's out. :odd: EDIT: NO other site does this, but GTP does.
 
CNG
How long does it take for an account to be deleted if you don't mind me asking?
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It doesn't happen any more.

CNG
So back on the first topic. How do bots do all this? Are they actual robots or just called bots?

Is there any way to stop them at all? They are taking over the internet, trust me, just go into ONE AIM chatroom.
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They're just little bits of code. Nothing more.

CNG
Earlier I saw a post that said something like last poster was -Diego-, then when I clicked it, Solid Lifter's posted last, and -Diego-'s post was made about an hour ago from the time I checked, and Solid Lifters made one a few minutes after that.
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The "View Last Post" link takes you to the last post. If someone posts between the one which is displayed and when you click on it, the NEW last post is displayed instead.

CNG
Also when people sign off GTP, it doesn't show offline until 40 minutes later. :indiff:
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If you log out, it's instant. If you just close GTP it ought to be 5 minutes, as far as I know.

CNG
This is just a thread about problems that I have been expieriencing. Also GTP sometimes just closes out of nowhere when I'm reading a post, or just going to a Link, it just X's out. :odd: EDIT: NO other site does this, but GTP does.
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Run an antivirus and spyware scan. Make sure your definitions are up to date.
 
Famine
The "View Last Post" link takes you to the last post. If someone posts between the one which is displayed and when you click on it, the NEW last post is displayed instead.
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I mean Solid Lifters made the post about 15 minutes after -Diego-, but it said that, and I saw the thread about 45 minutes after they posted. And then it said -Diego- posted an hour ago, but when I clicked the sub-forum Opinions and Current Events forum, that's when Solid Lifters 45 minute old post finally showed up as last post. Hmmm...
Run an antivirus and spyware scan. Make sure your definitions are up to date.
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Turns out I have no viruses, but GTP just X's out by itself, it even X'd out when I was making the longest POST ever, about 10 pages long, after that I didn't post for a few days, because that made me so mad. I had to type all the info from my "Currently on your first time through GT4?" thread to Notepad, then copy it to GTP, just to make sure that it wouldn't X out.
 
Well, it sometimes happens that your browser won't refresh the thread in your user control panel. It's happened to me many times: It says the last post was made at 23:10 by CNG, and I click on it and it turns out last post was at 10:12, by Duck or something like that.-
 
CNG
Turns out I have no viruses, but GTP just X's out by itself, it even X'd out when I was making the longest POST ever, about 10 pages long, after that I didn't post for a few days, because that made me so mad. I had to type all the info from my "Currently on your first time through GT4?" thread to Notepad, then copy it to GTP, just to make sure that it wouldn't X out.
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What about spyware? What are you using to scan that? If you're using Firefox, open another tab and everytime it tries to close the window it'll flash up a warning.
 
Jondot
Actually, I always assumed he was a guest at that point.
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It could be that. It's certainly not an active user account either way.

You have to remember, CNG, that GTP hasn't always looked like this. Prior to my joining it had already gone through 6 changes and that's only in the vBulletin era. It was once an MSN Group. Really, really old threads are prone to looking oddly formatted - with broked HMTL cropping up all over the place and   here and there.
 
I remember that, way back when. My first account became corrupt in the database and I had to re-register.

That was in 2001. My current registration date isn't exactly accurate, since it was really a few weeks before. But who cares. Aug 6th is close enough.
 
As has already been pointed out, search engine bots can make an unusual amount of activity appear in different areas of the forum. You can learn more about them here.

CNG
What about this?

Why do some of thier GTP names look so wierd? Also Why thier status doesn't appear on some of them?
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When I originally started the forum, I used a different type of forum software, called Ikonboard. When I purchased vBulletin, I had to "migrate" all of the posts and user data to the new software using an at-the-time unreleased conversion script. It was unable to correctly process banned users, instead deleting their accounts. When vBulletin is faced with the situation of having to display a post of a user account which it sees as "deleted", it simply displays the user name alone without corresponding user information (because it doesn't exist...).

CNG
Earlier I saw a post that said something like last poster was -Diego-, then when I clicked it, Solid Lifter's posted last, and -Diego-'s post was made about an hour ago from the time I checked, and Solid Lifters made one a few minutes after that. Also when people sign off GTP, it doesn't show offline until 40 minutes later. :indiff:

This is just a thread about problems that I have been expieriencing. Also GTP sometimes just closes out of nowhere when I'm reading a post, or just going to a Link, it just X's out. :odd: EDIT: NO other site does this, but GTP does.
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If you are viewing a "cached page" - a version of the webpage which is stored locally on your computer's hard drive - it won't contain the most up-to-date statistics of who posted last. This normally isn't a problem on most sites, but when things are changing quickly like they are here you will be able to see some discrepancies. You can easily change the cache on your browser to prevent this from happening. As for the site closing by itself, I've never seen that occur and I don't recall anyone else complaining of the issue. It most likely has something to do with a bad browser plugin, toolbar, or other piece of malware.
 
Jordan
*Snip*
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Ohh cool! :cool:
Driving Park
Yeah I've noticed some odd stuff like that too. By the way, nice avatar CNG.
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Thanks, it takes alot of guts to use a bus as an avatar, even if I drive one basically everyday. 👍

I am having a real problem now. I try to close one window on Internet Explorer, and it closes all of them! :ouch: This is even happening on Sarah's computer, and my brother's computer. :crazy: It is a real pain.

I tried to make a post, then it X'd out itself, then I have to keep retyping the information, until I just gave up and shortened the post.

I think usernames that haven't been on for a year should be deleted, sort of like a database clean-up. 💡 It should delete them not one at a time, but say if database clean-up day was 1 week away, then if you haven't logged on since before July 7th, 2006, thier username should be deleted. I usually see alot of good usernames taken, even though the account is deserted. (So many of them have 0 posts.) I'm sure if Duċk was reading this, he might agree. :)

On Topic: Scanning didn't fix the turbulance I was expieriencing. (Since there was no viruses or adware, etc.)

I hate Dell's now. They are slow and noisy.
 
CNG
I think usernames that haven't been on for a year should be deleted, sort of like a database clean-up. 💡 It should delete them not one at a time, but say if database clean-up day was 1 week away, then if you haven't logged on since before July 7th, 2006, thier username should be deleted. I usually see alot of good usernames taken, even though the account is deserted. (So many of them have 0 posts.) I'm sure if Duċk was reading this, he might agree. :)
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No. This has been suggested before, even asked and demanded for. It will not happen.
 
CNG
Ohh cool! :cool:Thanks, it takes alot of guts to use a bus as an avatar, even if I drive one basically everyday. 👍

I am having a real problem now. I try to close one window on Internet Explorer, and it closes all of them! :ouch: This is even happening on Sarah's computer, and my brother's computer. :crazy: It is a real pain.

I tried to make a post, then it X'd out itself, then I have to keep retyping the information, until I just gave up and shortened the post.

I think usernames that haven't been on for a year should be deleted, sort of like a database clean-up. 💡 It should delete them not one at a time, but say if database clean-up day was 1 week away, then if you haven't logged on since before July 7th, 2006, thier username should be deleted. I usually see alot of good usernames taken, even though the account is deserted. (So many of them have 0 posts.) I'm sure if Duċk was reading this, he might agree. :)

On Topic: Scanning didn't fix the turbulance I was expieriencing. (Since there was no viruses or adware, etc.)

I hate Dell's now. They are slow and noisy.
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It just seems a bit discourteous to me. A bit like going to your dentist and finding that your records have been destroyed because 6 months ago you had a checkup somewhere else. Or turfing everyone over 60 out of the country because some places are getting a bit full.

There are very few actual advantages in going and deleting inactive members, but there are plenty of reasons not to. On the upside, in theory it should make the software a bit easier to upgrade, but you've also got to remember that even without those members, there's still a heck of a lot of posts and threads to process. On the downside, all those members are likely to be pretty annoyed to return and find that their details have been deleted and their usernames have been nicked by other members. Not to mention that it'll probably take a sizable hit on the member count, and if carried out frequently could actually see the figure rise and fall randomly. I highly doubt that Jordan wants to see his hard earned statistics vanish before his eyes. And of course, a lot of those members will have orphaned posts. And what about banned users? After 1 year, they'll instantly become unbanned and be able to register with the exact same details once again.

Take a look around. See if you can find one other forum with more than 50,000 members that does this "pruning". I think you'll be surprised at how few forums actually do it - I've certainly never seen one. Those that do are usually in need of regular posting (on a post or we'll ban you system) or are hosted for free.

Anyway, this is all irrelevant because - as already mentioned in about 50 other threads - it's not going to happen here. I just thought I'd shed some light on why that probably is.
 
Nope, account "pruning" won't happen, as it really doesn't make much sense. I explained my stance on the situation this time last year, and it still holds true today.
 
I have to click the space on the left to click report, and the report button to quote. :nervous:

Also the space on the side never appeared there before, unless there was a big picture in the thread, and there wasn't. Also the highlighting is odd too, just minor problems though.
 
CNG
I have to click the space on the left to click report, and the report button to quote. :nervous:

Also the space on the side never appeared there before, unless there was a big picture in the thread, and there wasn't. Also the highlighting is odd too, just minor problems though.
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Refresh. That'll fix it.
 

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