Forum traffic

[exeric]

At the bottom of our forum page is a count of AMCA forum members, and guests. Often there are hundreds of guests, and less than 10 forum members at any given time. Just curious why guests don't want to join this forum and contribute their knowledge, or literary observations. Our forum is safe, entertaining, and very well moderated by Mike Love. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed how out-of-balance our forum participation is.

[BigLakeBob]

Sometimes (I think) I'm registered as a guess if I don't sign in. But if I sign in then I'm counted.

[pisten-bully]

...my guess is that the "guest" count is highly inflated by the presence of "bots", those automated pieces of software that crawl the internet constantly and anonymously searching for information.

[Rubone]

It isn't any different than any other forum I am on, there is always a small core group doing most of the discussion with a large percentage silent.