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Investors Paradise
August 28, 2006, 1:16pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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It would be cool to be able to change the amount of time users are counted as active from 15 minutes to say an hour, or whatever a site manager wanted. I know it would really just artifically inflate how many users seem to be online, but lets face it perception is important...


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thanks, I just noticed it was different on IP from here and figured out you must be able to

thanks a lot


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Perception isn't as important as an honest reputation




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I've had members of our site e-mail me and say "Why is there almost no one online here?!?! Other investing message boards have like 50 members and hundreds of guests on all the time!" Of course then I look and these message boards are set for something rediclous like 24 hrs. I set mine for 1hr. I don't think that's too excessive although i suppose calling them "Active Users" is somewhat misleading...


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Yeah, this is true.


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I disagree.  It's clear that you have an active forum by the amount of posts.  Any smart person would realise that.

I think you should put the time back to 15 minutes, and move the more populated boards higher up, or use subforums more.




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One other recommendation? Add this to your css template:

.titlebg a, .titlebg a:visited, .titlebg a:active {
  color:black;
  text-decoration:none;
}

.titlebg a:hover {
  color:black;
  text-decoration:underline;
}


The black stands out better on the gold, than the blue.  You know, you don't have to add the Administrator group to the moderator box for each board?




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Yeah, but you've got to agree that upon first view of a forum with 100 users online looks better than one with 1 user online.  

Of course that's all it does .... "look" better.  


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I don't agree because all you have to do is look at the data time and you can see it's inflated.  If it said 100users online and it's taken from 10 minutes, then that's different




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Yeah, but newbies don't know no better.  


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