Lurkers

[sailorboy1]

OK I looked at the bottom of the page and there were 152 members on the site and 752 guests.

Come guests join up and post some new topics for those of us on CF crack! Lots of winter left and we need the new stuff.

[Dave the Canuck]

I think that a lot of people lurking are actually members who don't bother signing in unless they have something to say/ask. Much like myself.

[RTB]

It's good to invite guests to join as you did, Don.

I've done the same at another place. It is interesting to see what guests are viewing by clicking on "currently active users". Many times, I have found some really great (long forgotten) old threads that way.

Ralph

[atoll]

does the facebook link directly get people onto the forum?
have fb a few but yet to see them here,and does it work the opposite way round?

[perchance]

Originally Posted by Don Lucas

OK I looked at the bottom of the page and there were 152 members on the site and 752 guests.

Come guests join up and post some new topics for those of us on CF crack! Lots of winter left and we need the new stuff.

What kind of new stuff did you have in mind? We've done pirates and guns to death and I too would like to change tack.

[atoll]

reacreational drugs? seems to be very common, about a 30/70 split on cruising yachts?
but may be that is fighting talk........................

[Janet H]

Originally Posted by atoll

does the facebook link directly get people onto the forum?
have fb a few but yet to see them here,and does it work the opposite way round?

There's a link from the facebook page to the forum. I guess when the lurkers are good and ready they'll join.

[atoll]

haha,have a lot of really old/current cruising contacts who are probably too busy doing the cruising thing on my fb page.did the "like cruisers forum" thing and see them poping up on the link but guess it is a bit like bringing a horse to water,cant neccesarily make them drink.

also is acceptable to include in my signature links to a www.shelterbox.org
who are a humanitarian charity that i fund and support globally?
and www.crewseekers.co.uk who have done a great deal for yachting in general
in supplying a forum for owners and crew?
atoll

[TaoJones]

Originally Posted by atoll

haha,have a lot of really old/current cruising contacts who are probably too busy doing the cruising thing on my fb page.did the "like cruisers forum" thing and see them poping up on the link but guess it is a bit like bringing a horse to water,cant neccesarily make them drink.

also is acceptable to include in my signature links to a www.shelterbox.org
who are a humanitarian charity that i fund and support globally?
and www.crewseekers.co.uk who have done a great deal for yachting in general
in supplying a forum for owners and crew?
atoll

Thank you for bothering to ask, atoll. In the Rules, you will find the following:

Signature Standards:
Signatures must be setup in your profile rather than manually added to your messages. They will appear at the bottom of every post you make.

• Signatures must be kept to a maximum of three lines (including blank lines) and contain no more than two links (non-commercial).
• Signature may not include email addresses, links to competing websites, prompts to contact or a sales pitch.
• Signatures must follow our forums posting standards and only one line may be bolded.
• Registered commercial vendors may have up to 3 signature lines and two links. Only one link may be to a site in which they have a commercial interest.

After you've read the above, please contact any member of the site staff if you require a fuller explanation prior to setting up your signature. Alternatively, if you think you understand the above, set up your sig in a way that you feel conforms with the Sig Standards. If you're right, you'll never hear from us - if you're wrong, however, . . . well, you can see where I'm going.

TaoJones

[atoll]

if i understand you correctly it would be okay to include www.shelterbox.org
who are a humanitarian charity,supported by rotary international in my signature.

but not crewseekers who though do a great deal for yachting are a commercial venture?
sorry if im being dim but am a bit sysdexlik
rgds atoll

[LowBudgetDave]

I have been reading confessions for a while. Great stuff. Once my kid grows up a little I plan to buy another trailer sailor and repeat many of these mistakes.

[David M]

Some of those lurkers are web crawlers. I have found Google links to my own posts within a very short period of time which is always a little surprising how quick the web crawlers are.

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by David M

Some of those lurkers are web crawlers.

This sounds like something that I need to see a picture of for proper identification in the furture.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by Don Lucas

This sounds like something that I need to see a picture of for proper identification in the furture.

Don, you have seen Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, well those web crawlers look like the Aliens.

Thankfully CF has a team of MODs constantly guarding our server armed only with lightsabers to keep the crawlers at bay those lightsabers work pretty good on spam too

Pete

[courageous cat]

Yes i'm deffintly a lurker. I do get on ever so often and say somethink.
But I do like reading here, its a great site