Zone1 Why Do People Register Here and Never Post?

[DudleySmith]

spiders and bots for assorted data miners, like Google and others make up the 'guests'. Google probably has dozens by itself. WAyback Machine stores snapshots every so often.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Or just post like once and then leave for good? I always wondered that.

Loads of reasons.

Such as, returning banned posters wanting to see more sections of the forum, sock accounts for future deployment, mods from other forums, Lefties then frightened off when they see free speech etc ....

 

[leftwinger]

Another reason:
if you read all the posts, someone will say what you are thinking 99% of the time. A lot of GOOD Posters here. But, painful to wade thru the anti-American loon postin CNN spin one by one like parrots in a tree. Kaw kaw…yu racist.

 

[BS Filter]

I have a suspicion at least some of them are writers for news shows or blogs looking for free material.

Bullseye. It happens.

 

[Delldude]

What's the difference between visitors and guests? Both aren't registered I assume.

Guests usually are bots.

 

[Delldude]

Click the '111' more' and it opens up .

 

[Toro]

ropy registers a LOT of socks

 

[buttercup]

There's a lot of good answers here already as to why people don't post more. But just to add...maybe instead of the same old stuff, people need to start some new, more interesting topics? As it is now, most of discussions here (at least today) are less exciting than watching paint dry.

 

[Delldude]

As it is now, most of discussions here (at least today) are less exciting than watching paint dry.

I used to get paid very well for watching paint dry.

 

[leopold2]

In the old days of SEO people would register, fill out their profile and a link to their website for the SEO value. That's kind of ineffective nowadays but I think a lot of people still do it for a quick link.

I think there are still some of them, but not as much as I used to agree with that, now they probably have other ways to do it and I'm sorry that I'm replying to a post from a month ago