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Postby Cheryl Jones » Dec 7, 2005 10:03 pm

chrisj is number 500! :woohoo:

As a prize, s/he gets to write us a good caving story! :big grin:

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Growth Update

Postby CaverScott » Dec 15, 2005 8:09 am

We have 526 cavers registered on the NSS forum.
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Updated Stats

Postby CaverScott » Dec 30, 2005 9:03 am

We have 555 cavers registered on the NSS forum.
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Updated Information

Postby CaverScott » Jan 10, 2006 8:30 am

We have 574 cavers registered on the NSS forum
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Updated Stats

Postby CaverScott » Jan 24, 2006 9:51 am

We have 602 cavers registered on the NSS forum.
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Updated Information

Postby CaverScott » Feb 27, 2006 12:37 pm

We have 666 cavers registered on the NSS forum.
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Boy are we ever a wordy bunch

Postby CaverScott » Mar 17, 2006 4:26 pm

Cavers have made a total of 10085 posts since Sept. 1, 2005. We have 703 cavers registered on the NSS forum
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Forum Snapshot

Postby Wayne Harrison » Apr 12, 2006 4:46 pm

Website Re-lauched: Sept. 1, 2005

Oct 1: 297 members
Nov 1: 392 members
Dec 1: 452 members
Jan 1: 514 members
Feb 1: 565 members
March 1: 615 members
April 1: 670 members

Cavers have made a total of 11,600 posts since Sept. 1, 2005.

Top 50 Posters:

1 Wayne Harrison 778
2 RescueMan 487
3 Squirrel Girl 483
4 bigalpha 453
5 NZcaver 448
6 Scott McCrea 367
7 Phil Winkler 350
8 Cheryl Jones 304
9 hewhocaves 298
10 David_Campen 239
11 cob 230
12 Lynn Roebuck 223
13 hank_moon 195
14 zenas Athens, 188
15 Dan Sullivan 180
16 erebus 171
17 Teresa 167
18 wendy 159
19 Scott Fee 152
20 mgmills 151
21 speloman 140
22 kvart 134
23 ian mckenzie 134
24 Sean Ryan 121
25 Ralph E. Powers 118
26 itabot 105
27 George Dasher 105
28 Otac 103
29 Cindy Heazlit 95
30 Realms 85
31 Steven Johnson 84
32 Ron Fulcher 82
33 caverdoc 78
34 JackW 75
35 hydrology_joe 75
36 Nico 74
37 Hatch 70
38 Lava 69
39 Brian Leavell 64
40 Caver1402 62
41 Tim White 59
42 CaveJunkie 59
43 jmo 57
44 Dangerjudy 5 55
45 CKB69 55
46 Dave Bunnell 53
47 Espeleologa 53
48 bsignorelli 53
49 Patricia Bingham 53
50 hunter 51
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800 and growing

Postby CaverScott » May 2, 2006 9:44 pm

Cavers have made a total of 12871 posts since Sept. 1, 2005. We have 800 cavers registered on the NSS forum. :kewl:
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Update

Postby CaverScott » Jun 12, 2006 7:14 am

We have 845 cavers registered on the NSS forum.
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Postby Wayne Harrison » Jul 18, 2006 1:07 pm

We have 902 cavers registered on the NSS forum.
Cavers have made a total of 13,159 posts since Sept. 1, 2005.
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Postby Wayne Harrison » Sep 8, 2006 3:25 pm

Wondering why the list of current forum members dropped suddenly?

I pared the the final group of users who registered but never activated their forum accounts (from 2005) from the NSS Forum memberlist and we now have a few more than 950 cavers registered on the forum. I had hoped to reach the magic 1,000 users mark by our year anniversary, but I'm sorry to say we didn't make it.

Many of the accounts I deleted today appeared to be spammers, based on their e-mail addresses. (In the standard phpBB configuration, a person registering can list their Web site URL without activating, so spam bots register to get the link up on sites and never come back. I have taken that step out of the registration process for this forum. You have to be an activated user to list a Web site in your profile here).

I have also taken steps to slow down or thwart future spam bot registrations by inserting an extra step in the cavechat registration process that involves a pull-down menu that must be selected to continue the registration.

The daily number of posts and the variety of cavers participating on Cavechat also seems to have increased significantly since the convention. Welcome to all the new users!

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Postby Hatch » Sep 8, 2006 4:38 pm

I have to delete 2 to 5 spammer accounts a day from the Nashville Grotto message boards. Even the captcha they have to do during registration only slowed it down a little. It can be very frustrating.
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Postby Scott McCrea » Sep 8, 2006 5:03 pm

D'oh! MAPS got your signature, Hatch.
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Postby Wayne Harrison » Sep 8, 2006 5:47 pm

Fixed. For some reason blogspot is on the MAPS spam word list.
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