As of this moment: 8:37 AM 8/27/2009
The MiCasaVerde forum’s stats include…
Total Members: 3074
Male to Female Ratio: 2369:1
Most Online At Once: 29, on August 11, 2009, 09:17:28 am
I was quite amused by the M:F ratio, although it doesn’t quite jibe (mathematically) with the “Total Members” (unless there’s actually 1.3 females aboard). And here I thought MCV was trying to market Vera to a female audience, judging from the “Intro Video”!?
And I was also intrigued to discover that so many other users came online the very same morning (Aug. 11) that I first connected my Vera here at home!! I don’t know how to interpret that factoid, but would like to think Vera is catching on with a wider audience now.
Notice there appears to be a LOT of fake or otherwise duplicated users under almost every letter A, B, C, etc. ie; a146927i they all start with a letter, have 6 numbers and a letter, they have the same ICQ address, same website, etc and have never posted a message. I would assume the actual count of real people is much less than reported.
Yeah, I saw that on another forum that I run, they will register a ton of accounts just to put in the website address so that it hopefully gets one or two people to visit it. What I would recommend to MCV is to install this mod to SMF. It uses the reCaptcha script to slow the spammers down, I installed it on one of my forums 4 days ago and haven’t seen any spammers since, and we were getting 2-3 a day.