Rusty's RPGHQ Ruminations

[Jordy]

how much dosh u making on those ads u cram between every div on the site?

Less than a dollar a day on average.

What's hidden?

Users marked as hidden.

That stat excludes as many bots as possible btw, so it's not comparable to any other forum that doesn't also filter out bots. It's why we haven't broken our peak since I began Total Bot Death.

How does one become marked as hidden?

[Shillitron]

That stat excludes as many bots as possible btw, so it's not comparable to any other forum that doesn't also filter out bots. It's why we haven't broken our peak since I began Total Bot Death.

How do determine which users are bots or actually people?

asks them to post bobs and vagene in pm.

[rusty_shackleford]

How do determine which users are bots or actually people?

User agent.
Bots spoofing their useragent are automatically detected and blocked.

[Shillitron]

How do determine which users are bots or actually people?

User agent.
Bots spoofing their useragent are automatically detected and blocked.

I spoof my user agent. Am I bot?

[rusty_shackleford]

How do determine which users are bots or actually people?

User agent.
Bots spoofing their useragent are automatically detected and blocked.

I spoof my user agent. Am I bot?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[Shillitron]

User agent.
Bots spoofing their useragent are automatically detected and blocked.

I spoof my user agent. Am I bot?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

beep boop

[Vergil]

Where'd we get linked now?

Cool account

[TKVNC]

Where'd we get linked now?

You're a Norwegian Naval Architect?

Damn.

[Tangerine]

That stat excludes as many bots as possible btw, so it's not comparable to any other forum that doesn't also filter out bots. It's why we haven't broken our peak since I began Total Bot Death.

How do determine which users are bots or actually people?

If they give unsolicited opinions on Israel, it's not a bot.

[rusty_shackleford]

How does one become marked as hidden?

hide my online status
ucp.php?i=179

[logincrash]

Where'd we get linked now?

Actually, this is the more likely source:

[Vergil]

Where'd we get linked now?

Actually, this is the more likely source:

You have to potential to be the one to single handedly ruin this site forever.

[logincrash]

You're a Norwegian Naval Architect?

Damn.

Yep. Don't build your house on sand is my advice as famous naval architect.

You have to potential to be the one to single handedly ruin this site forever.

This means a lot coming from you, Vergil.

[Jordy]

Where'd we get linked now?

Actually, this is the more likely source:

No mention of HQ in any of them though.

[logincrash]

Actually, this is the more likely source:

No mention of HQ in any of them though.

130k views:

2k views:

[Marcus]

We're currently averaging 2x the daily traffic we got at the start of December, I'm almost certain google boosted us on search results after we started using ads. Can't put off the hardware switch any longer.

>rely on user donations in order to pay the bills for running this site
>run out of money
>start using ads
>traffic explodes, but the money the ads bring in is no more enough to pay for the increased traffic
>be worse off than before using ads

It's like using ads is a faustian deal with the devil.

[Vergil]

Actually, this is the more likely source:

No mention of HQ in any of them though.

130k views:

2k views:

Posting a direct link and writing to imply you have anything to do with making it. It attention seekening.

[rusty_shackleford]

We're currently averaging 2x the daily traffic we got at the start of December, I'm almost certain google boosted us on search results after we started using ads. Can't put off the hardware switch any longer.

>rely on user donations in order to pay the bills for running this site
>start using ads in order to pay the increasing costs for running this site
>traffic explodes, but the money the ads bring in is no more enough to pay for the increased traffic
>be worse off than before using ads

It's like using ads is a faustian deal with the devil.

ads were never intended as a source of revenue but to bully users into signing up

[Marcus]

ads were [were intended] to bully users into signing up

and who thought that was a good idea? xD

[Shillitron]

ads were [were intended] to bully users into signing up

and who thought that was a good idea? xD

This is textbook Rusty logic.

[rusty_shackleford]

new forum server acquired, now I have to set it up

[Statesman]

new forum server acquired, now I have to set it up

But setting it up is the fun part.

[rusty_shackleford]

modhq is borked and not updating, I'll fix it in a couple days

[edit]
nvm, it was an easy fix

[Vergil]

hello rusty

[rusty_shackleford]

Search is broke, give me some time to fix it

Fixed.

[rusty_shackleford]

Sorry if you guys had any issues connecting/saw errors in the past hour, was fixing stuff up. I should be done, hopefully.

[rusty_shackleford]

We passed 3 terabytes of bandwidth served monthly.