MODS: Curious about a few stats for today (7/20)

[J]

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There were a very very large number of those this morning. I suspect for that reason.

[spleify]

You mods are awesome. Please let us know if there is any way we can help.

Thanks, you are all helping us by keeping things in check. If you see something out of whack use the report button. If you have to question what you are about to post maybe it would be best to hold off with it then for a while.

We are busy and its been tough even trying to keep up with everything. But thanks to all the members for helping out.

[GilpinGuy]

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There were a very very large number of those this morning. I suspect for that reason.

Leeches.

[10mm-man]

Thanks for the hard work!

[jake]

Leeches.

Or just doing their jobs, admittedly in a very lazy way. The fact that this member wasn't plastered all over the news this morning means they realised they were wrong and didn't do anything with the information, mention the site, or any of the less than appropriate posts that they may have read. And bearing in mind we watched a journalist basically describing pictures from facebook that were being shown on screen, that's a blessing.

[GilpinGuy]

Or just doing their jobs, admittedly in a very lazy way. The fact that this member wasn't plastered all over the news this morning means they realised they were wrong and didn't do anything with the information, mention the site, or any of the less than appropriate posts that they may have read. And bearing in mind we watched a journalist basically describing pictures from facebook that were being shown on screen, that's a blessing.

OK, maybe I'm a bit misguided here, but I'm not sure. Going to a totally legit forum with the intent of digging up some dirt for some news broadcast or print story or ratings just seems dirty to me. No, it IS dirty. Shame on them.

Someone posted (ginsue maybe?) that this site was mentioned on USA Today earlier today. Seriously? WTF does this degenerate have to do with this site at all? Nothing that I have seen. Yet we're all referenced......thanks Liberal Media!

[Geology Rocks]

Thank you for all that you do Mods.

Would shutting down new members for a few days, or making the newest of new members be required to hit 25 posts, or be members for 7 days, before being able to search and things like that be helpful? just thinking aloud.

[theGinsue]

I'm curious, since I have never seen so many "Currently Active Users" here before today:

• Was there was a big spike in new "members" today?
• Did a significant number of these new members behave "normally" (post in the New Members Sign In thread, etc.)?
• Were there more "inflammatory" posts removed by the MODS than normal?
• Were there a lot of complaints or inquiries from these new members about why they couldn't access the Trading Post?

I can just imagine a ton of liberal journalists or activists (same thing) trying to infiltrate the site and maybe even stir things up a little with inflammatory posts. I haven't seen many stupid posts, so that's good. But maybe they got excised quickly and I never saw them.

I can also imagine these same a-holes trying to get into the TP to copy and paste the "evil black guns" that are listed there in their slanted and misguided "reports" on the "out of control gun culture of Colorado".

If you can share any info, great. If not, understood. Keep up the great work with the forum!

Well I see 32 people registered on the forums today, with only a couple having posted. One posted in this thread. One or two others introduced themselves.

83 new member accounts created on Friday. Of those, all but a handful were banned after finding fraudulent information in their profiles. Registerees came from all over the U.S., Ireland, various U.K. cities, Australia, Brazel, New Zealand and a few places in Canada. I only recall 1 or 2 posts from these sets of accounts (we did get a couple of new legit members too).

Of these registered accounts, a large number were from some news outlet or another (and of the thousands of guests, you have to know many of them were from news outlets as well). I know for a fact that they had folks from the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, USA Today, New York Daily News, and a couple from CBS Broadcasting. I suspect other organizations based off of their login data, but since I can't be 100% certain & in order to maintain my integrity, I won't list them. We also had many from colleges & universities (including England's Oxford University) as well as many interesting Washington D.C., McClean, VA, Batimore, MD and surrounding areas log in's (some log in domains can be very telling, even if the "member"/guest claims to be from "Denver"). I'll let you make your own determinations as to who those might have been.

We had folks searching through our threads and posts to see if they could find the Aurora theater shooter amongst our membership. He isn't, but that didn't stop at least 2 (that we know of) of our members being falsely accused across the Internet of being the James Holmes.

Members of the Brady bunch and other anti 2A organizations sifted through our site as well, looking for anything they think they can use against our rights.



It was a busy day on the site and I need to state that it will continue this way for a while. This site, amongst many, will be scrutinized from top to bottom until a better story comes along, or they get tired of our non-criminal, non-threatening discussions (that, or unless the Pink Ponies scare them away first).

[theGinsue]

Someone posted (ginsue maybe?) that this site was mentioned on USA Today earlier today. Seriously? WTF does this degenerate have to do with this site at all? Nothing that I have seen. Yet we're all referenced......thanks Liberal Media!

I don't know of this site getting mentioned anywhere in the media, but I do know that USA Today was on the site.

[theGinsue]

Would shutting down new members for a few days, or making the newest of new members be required to hit 25 posts, or be members for 7 days, before being able to search and things like that be helpful? just thinking aloud.

That sort of thing is always a consideration, but we need to ensure that we don't
(1) prevent legit members from being able to join, and
(2) give anyone reason to believe that we have something to hide.

Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.