Ever just go to the "newest member" and go back one user # at a time?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Doing that right now, as a sort of quasi-survey of the last 50 most recent Dopers to register:

[ul]
[li]Guest, no posts 9[/li]
[li]“Registered User”* 3[/li]
[li]Banned [no posts], gibberish handle 19[/li][li]Banned, intelligible handle 14[/li][li]Email for a handle 1[/li]
[li]Guest, one post 3[/li]
[li]Guest, 2-5 posts 1[/li][/ul]
Fave handles:

Mad Mark
MoleRemovalWiki
Enquisitor
SayrtheSooth
Pigweed
really_ginsu
Dopelesshopefiend3121
The time period for these 50 registrations was 43 hours.

*What makes someone a Registered User, vs. a guest?

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paying the yearly subscription

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Where do you find this information? I don’t seem to have the option…?

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A registered user hasn’t answered the confirmation e-mail.
Banned [no posts], gibberish handle-spammers, the streaming sports type
Banned, intelligible handle- mostly SEO type spammers with maybe a few socks thrown in

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Just click on their handle and manually change the user number in the URL (from 234567 to 234566).

Even more fun putting in 1 and then going forward from there…

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As soon as I saw the topic, I thought “Wow, you’d get a lot of spammers that way”.

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Yeah, interesting data (though not surprising). 66% spammers (with maybe a few sock), 8% actual posters.