Zero. Posters that get banned are all lazy fat-asses.
Several thousand? Not even close.
An “active member” is defined by the vB software as an account that has logged-in within the previous 60 days. (60 days is the default. This number can be changed by an Administrator). I think that it’s safe to say that most of those are lurkers, attempted spammers or one off accounts that never made a post or maybe just made one post ever to ask a question.
If we are talking about someone who made say three or four posts over the last 60 days, it’s probably closer to several hundred at any given time.
I can’t remember the specifics, but recall seeing current posts by someone with Banned under their username, so I presumed it was a custom title they used for humor. Based on the responses in this thread, I must have been mistaken.
I’m not sure why you think you have more information about this than I do, but you’re wrong.
I know how an active member is defined. The number I gave is an informed estimate based on the number of posters who register, the number of spammers we ban, and the fact that most people who register never make a post.
We get 10-20 new registrations a day. Even if 95% of them are spammers and people who never post or make only a few posts, that still only accounts for around 1,000 of the 4,500 “active members” in the past 60 days.
Nonsense. That’s a ridiculously low estimate. A check of “Who’s On-line?” shows 272 members currently logged in at this moment, plus 8,291 “guests” who are not logged in. (Some of the latter may actually be members.)*
A little over 2500 posts were made on Friday. While some posters are very prolific, few posters actually have a posting rate even as high as three posts a day. A spot check of just 5 new threads (4 in GQ and one in the Pit) started since Friday shows more than 100 unique users posted in those threads. Over 90 threads were started on Friday, mostly by different posters
Based on these figures, my best guess it that we probably have close to a 1,000 different users post on a given day, certainly more than 500. That probably translates to a couple of thousand members who have posted in any given week, and is the basis for my estimate of several thousand real active members at any one time, not counting spammers and people who register and never post.
*The largest number of users ever on line (including non-members) was 28,492 on 30 January 2013.
I could easily be underestimating but nearly all of the “guests” who are not logged in are search indexing spiders and the same goes for the 23k in one day.
Maybe some of this is semantics but to me several thousand means between six and nine thousand and posters means someone who makes a post. An account can’t post without being and Active Member so no more than 4.6k accounts could have possibly made a post in the last 60 days. If 1000 are spammers we are down to 3.6k. Take away the lurkers who log in to search and people who make one or two posts and leave, we are down quite a bit more. So maybe 2000 people who made three or four posts in the last 60 days but not several thousand “active posters” which was your claim.
As for the Guests, look at the Who’s Online function if it’s made available to Moderators here. You’ll see that most of the Guests are “looking” at a very old thread. It could be someone from a Google search but it’s a pretty good indication that it’s a spider.
As far as I can tell, they’re not. One guest currently on line is shown as a Google spider.
“Several thousand” means to me just that, which would be anything from 2,000 on up. I gave my reasons to think that we may have 2,000+ users who post during a given week. Otherwise you are just quibbling about what “several” means, and how many posts you have to make to be considered active.
In any case, your estimate of “several hundred at any given time” is much too low, unless by that you mean people currently logged on.
No, he’s a normal human typing with his human hands.