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[Ragol666]

Your statistics are wrong for revsoft

Our users have posted a total of 113377 articles
We have 2674 registered users

so it would be Revolution Software->United TI->Cemetech->Maxcoderz->Omnimaga

[luby]

Where did you get those stats?

[Ragol666]

Here, see page bottom

http://www.revsoft.org/phpBB2/

[kermmartian]

[Ragol666]

Cheaters!

Omnimaga seems to have done that too, but not as worse

I found this in their HTML

<script>
tds = document.getElementsByTagName("td");

for (f=0; f<tds.length; f++){
if (tds[f].className=="row4" && tds[f].innerHTML.match("Our members have")) {
bolds = tds[f].getElementsByTagName("b")
var users = parseInt(bolds[0].innerHTML)
bolds[0].innerHTML = users + 17416
}
}
</script>

EDIT: oh, silly me, I forgot they use two databases. They were probably not able to combine postcounts of the two in one

[kermmartian]

Yup, that's exactly what it is. Cemetech has a similar thing in its code that corrects by some 9000 users.

[Weregoose]

Maybe we should have something that subtracts the number of users who have not made any posts.

[Ragol666]

I think some forums prune accounts with 0 posts every month

[spandiv]

[luby]

There are about 1,500 members in the "validating" list and those aren't considered members (I think)

[DarkerLine]

[DJ Omnimaga]

If I am correct, if we count all previous forums each one had, this should be this way:

United-TI always had the same forum since the beginning. However, the database crashed at one point and about 1000 posts were lost I think.

Cemetech had one too and altough most deleted posts are still counted in the total, some were not, so I think it should be 7000 more if i remember. The old invisionfree board is alerady counted in the total though.

MaxCoderz went through 2 hackings i think and 4 or 5 boards. First hacking didn't resetted the total post count but second did (since they moved to a new software). If we count all previous boards post counts they would have 110000 posts by now at least.

Omnimaga current forum includes the total amount of posts from the previous forum in its current total, so stats stay the same. The 60 posts made back in 2004 on the yaronet forum are negligible

Revsoft didn't go through any hacking as far as I know

[AlienCC]

If you want to get that techinical about it why not count the posts from the forums that are no more and were melded into creating United-TI in the beginning?

Besides post count doesn't mean much to me, it's just a number. For me it has always been more about the content of the post then how many I can pump out, which reflects on my personal post count.

[DJ Omnimaga]

True that, imo it's more the quality that counted, and how staff are active on the forums.

As for forums that merged with UTI, add at least 8000 for Cirrus (I miss this site) and that other one which had like 3000 i think. Thanks for reminding me of those

EDIT: Yeah spambots those days register in greater numbers than real humans on forums , on Omnimaga current forums, which have 264 members in total, IDs alerady reaches the late 700s, and spambots only started registering last year, this means we got about 500 bots trying to register in about a year. So much that right now admins have to manualy activate new members accounts for anti-spambot precautions