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Wow!

Most users ever online was 1264, Yesterday at 11:26 PM.

That beats the last record by what? 400? Chalk it up to finals week I guess.
 

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Don't get me wrong, it's awesome we have a sudden jolt in visitors, any publicity is good, however the reason is due to PF having the #2 spot on google for the phrase "Nicholas Berg video". Checkout how many ppl are viewing the value theory forum, at one point I saw over 900! We should be getting a whole lot more traffic because google just updated the results tonight and some of the data centers are still updating. So if we can get that many during on off time without all data centers updated, I'm expecting 2000 avg during the day! :smile:
 
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Ah. That explains it.

*chuckle*

wasn't the last surge due to John Titor or some such?
 
enigma said:
Ah. That explains it.

*chuckle*

wasn't the last surge due to John Titor or some such?

Yeah and a post was linked from slashdot, that was great!
 
I guess we have the original thread starter to thank for :)
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
however the reason is due to PF having the #2 spot on google for the phrase "Nicholas Berg video".
sick people who go out in search for entertainment like that, yuck
 
Monique said:
sick people who go out in search for entertainment like that, yuck

Surely, they were all just seeking an illuminating debate on the moral quandry of the whole situation. :rolleyes:

Njorl
 
The_Professional said:
I guess we have the original thread starter to thank for :)

Actually, you can thank my morality- and my very loud conscience :)
 
I also invite people to come here for a visit. I wonder how many of them come?
 
How is it that I never lost track of this ancient thread? :confused:

Anyway, I've only just noticed it but we've eclipsed the old record.

Most users ever online was 1,474, 04-24-2006 at 09:11 PM
 
I've used PF's search and Google and can't find the thread. Gotta link anyone? :redface:
 
The maximum number of members online at any time is shown just above the active users, on the main page.

We are also coming up on 100,000 threads, and 1,000,000 posts.
 
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You're wrong Greg.

The recent traffic is due to my wearing my PF.com T-shirt!
 
dav2008 said:
You're wrong Greg.

The recent traffic is due to my wearing my PF.com T-shirt!

That will be worth a lot of money someday! :biggrin:
 
So how many of the 1400+ users were bots? :wink:
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
That will be worth a lot of money someday! :biggrin:
I lied.

I don't have a PF shirt :(

Those are for nerds :p
 
Who's Nicolas Berg? :confused:

Google...

Ahhh - sad story that. Did he post here or something?
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
About 1000 :)

Wow, who knew that those bots were such an untapped resource? Think any will become PF Contributors?
 
No kidding, and why do we have so many members named bot?
 
I know, that's really going to make it difficult to nominate one of them for a Science Advisor medal.
 
ZapperZ said:
As long as they don't become crackBots, I'm fine!
:smile: :smile:
 
ZapperZ said:
As long as they don't become crackBots, I'm fine!

:)

Zz.
Defiton of robot
Pronunciation

* rō'bət, /ˈrəʊbət/, /"r@Ubət/
* rō'bŏt", /ˈrəʊˌbɒt/, /"r@U%bQt/

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Etymology

From both Czech robota meaning "drudgery" or "servitude" and from Slovak robota meaning "labour". First appeared in a translation of the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek.
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Noun
Wikipedia has an article on:
robot

robot (plural: robots)

1. A machine that resembles humans in shape or scope of function.
2. A machine that operates automatically.
3. A machine controlled by an fundamentally ingrained computer.
4. (South Africa) Traffic lights.
Defition of computer:
Etymology

From Latin computare meaning to count or compute.
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Noun

computer (plural computers)

1. A programmable device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly.
I guess only a crackbot could be that kind of robot.
 
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So do these Bots crash the PF server?? :biggrin:
 

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