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EEVblog:
I just went through and cleaned up over 20,000 spam registrations (not verified so could never post), and purged any account with zero posts who hadn't logged in in the last month.
So the 7000 odd members should be a genuine figure now.
Will try and do this regularly.

SeanB:
Thanks Dave, not that that uses space but at least searching the memberlist becomes easier.

7000 active users, that is quite good, certainly among the most I have seen on a blog.

Did the bulk of those 20k of registrations occur during the multimeter giveaway?

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: SeanB on May 16, 2013, 09:54:38 am ---Did the bulk of those 20k of registrations occur during the multimeter giveaway?

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Nope, just the usually couple of hundred per day buildup. Yep, it's that frequent.
The forum software flags the spammers (based on global database), but unfortunately does not automatically delete the accounts or reject them. So if I don't periodically kill them, they build up.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: SeanB on May 16, 2013, 09:54:38 am ---7000 active users, that is quite good, certainly among the most I have seen on a blog.

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Yes, it's quite impressive. Almost all of those have made at least one post (the rest are zero posters in the last month).

baljemmett:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 16, 2013, 09:40:01 am ---So the 7000 odd members should be a genuine figure now.

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Yes, but how many normal members?  ;)

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