05-22-2016, 09:51 PM
(05-22-2016, 09:12 PM)Shaadaris Wrote:(05-22-2016, 03:10 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: Some people simply don't want their names to appear in the who is online list for one reason or another.
Anyone with moderator access or above can see who it actually is, invisible users are marked with a star near their name. But they also are expected to not reveal what names they saw with that status in effect.
Its just a privacy feature the forum has that is optional to use.
While you're at it, can you explain why we can sometimes have up to 30 guests checking the forum but not a single member online? Seriously who the hell are these people and why are there so many? Also, why do Google and Baidu sometimes show up as though they're unclickable members?? Why are web companies looking at our forum???
The guests would be spambots searching for ways to get in and deliver their garbage. Mostly anyway, it is also possible for a link to here to have come up in a search result for something or other and a group of friends is looking at out random nonsense because it happened to be relevant to their search.
When you see Google Baidu Zandex and Bing on the user list, it means their search indexers are hard at work categorizing our stuff so that it can be found in the search engines. The current configuration only allows them into parts of the forum that you can access without being logged in, so they quite plainly can't see a lot of what is here.
Feel free to PM me if anything is broken