Members On Line "Guest" numbers: Who Are You??

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Lonnie

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In response to this forum's viewership and activity, or more specifically the lack of member responses, I went to the bottom of this forum's main website to who is online and currently viewing the content of this forum.
Yes, it was early morning, but the number were perplexing to me: 3 members, and 5270 or so guests! That many guests?!!
I understand the member's quantity, but the guests quantity was a head- scratcher, to say the least. I would think the forum software knows who is real person with an internet access address and who is a bot or AI agent/entity.
This leads me to ask who the later mentioned "guests" are and what they are doing within this forum and it's content, hence my question "Who Are You?".
I doubt I will get a logical answer from this forum's owners/overseer's or from current Autopia members " in the know" who wish to post their opinions or viewpoints on this most disconcerting topic, but as stated, I still would like to know about something/someone who are behind these numbers.
 
Well, certainly some of them are people who are not members who internet searched and are looking at a thread related to their search. And perhaps some of them are members who are not signed in. And I suppose the rest are bots or spiders reviewing the threads (for search engines), but I'll leave that that to someone who is more well-versed in that kind of thing than I am.
 
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After your post and thinking about it, that "staggering" guest number (at least it was and is to me) is not so implausible considering the world-wide-web (WWW) may have over 2 to 3 BILLION viewers on it at any given time, that guest number may seem miniscule and insignificant as a whole to the mentioned WWW total viewership estimate.
Even if you consider English-speaking/fluent viewers that may number 100 million or so at any given time, that guest number is still " insignificant".

Still, I would like to know who (or what) "they" are.
 
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Conspiracy theories aside, I wonder if the now general-user (IE, no license required) available plethora of Artificial Intelligence programs are impacting this forum's viewership and, hence, partition posts.
Still waiting for an AI program/agent to try some new detailing product or piece of equipment and post a review in this forum about "their (oops, it's!) experience".
Yeah, I started a different thread topic before on this lament!
That said, someone did use an AI program to write a review with their infed key words, and it was quite "impressive" what it organized and generated.
 
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