Author Topic: Member Signups - why do numbers go up and down, and lately so few signup?  (Read 1865 times)

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Just a quick public announcment :)

We've had well over 1300 'member accounts' signed up in the history of OKgamers.  A good 400 were spammers.

Over the course of software upgrades, around the middle of July, we eliminated the massive spammer account problem we had by upgrading our forum software.

Long story short? 

If you saw 1000+ members at any point, that was because of massive spammer bots signing up for accounts.  We've eliminated the loophole that allowed them to slip in, and over the course of the last few months gone back and deleted most of those accounts.

If you look at stats where we had months with hundreds of new accounts?  That's part of the reason why :)

(Do we still get members signing up?  Almost every day.  But now we don't have to put up with nearly as many spammers -_-)



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