Member Count

[Gonna Smoke]

I don't really look at the total number of members on here much, but on my laptop, the number is right there along with the latest member, etc. It seems the rolls may have been purged? I remember recently there were over 146,000 members on SMF and now that number is down around 138,000. Just curious...

 

[Abigail4476]

I don't really look at the total number of members on here much, but on my laptop, the number is right there along with the latest member, etc. It seems the rolls may have been purged? I remember recently there were over 146,000 members on SMF and now that number is down around 138,000. Just curious...

This seems like a great question for bmudd14474 . My best guess is that a bunch of spam accounts were purged from the system.

 

[bmudd14474]

I dont recall us being above 140k accts. We purge spam accts as we go so it wouldn't be a bit jump like that one.

 

[Abigail4476]

I dont recall us being above 140k accts. We purge spam accts as we go so it wouldn't be a bit jump like that one.

Okay, that is weird, because I checked wayback machine from last year (snapshot from 6/26/24) and the forum was definitely showing a lot more members. Maybe TulsaJeff knows.

 

[Gonna Smoke]

Okay, that is weird, because I checked wayback machine from last year (snapshot from 6/26/24) and the forum was definitely showing a lot more members. Maybe TulsaJeff knows.

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I almost always access the forum with my laptop and this screenshot is what I see every time. Couple of months ago I was thinking that the membership was about to break the 150k mark. When I returned from my trip, I saw 138k so was curious what had happened...

 

[Gonna Smoke]

Okay, that is weird, because I checked wayback machine from last year (snapshot from 6/26/24) and the forum was definitely showing a lot more members. Maybe TulsaJeff knows.

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Also looking at your screenshot, the message count changed, as well...

 

[Brokenhandle]

I just want to welcome Pablo!

Ryan

 

[SmokinEdge]

PabloS.
Lol.

 

[normanaj]

What about mexphysio!

 

[pineywoods]

I get rid of some spammers about every day but I have not gotten rid of that many well maybe I have if we added up all of them since I first became a Moderator . I think awhile back some IP addresses in some areas were prevented from ever creating an account these are places where every user account was spam. I didn't do it and don't know if it might have deleted all the spam accounts from that area that were already created.
I know most of you don't see all the spammers that try to create accounts. Thankfully the filters catch most of it and we try to get rid of the rest. You might be surprised at how much spam we get daily weekly 365 they never take a day off.

 

[bmudd14474]

Might need to rebuild the cache. We will see what happens

 

[912smoker]

I almost always access the forum with my laptop and this screenshot is what I see every time. Couple of months ago I was thinking that the membership was about to break the 150k mark. When I returned from my trip, I saw 138k so was curious what had happened...

You weren't by chance in a DeLorean were you ?

Keith

 

[Gonna Smoke]

You weren't by chance in a DeLorean were you ?

Keith

Yep at 88 mph...