General Discussion
I thought I would give you a few statistics on dawlish.com for the year (24/12/2010 - 23/12/2011 inclusive): The number of hits is the highest so far at 484,459 - up from 384,040 last year. This amounts to an average of 1,327 hits a day. The highest day was the 18th of August with 3305 hits. The lowest was Christmas day with 336 hits (2010). The average visitor looks at 4.22 pages, so we ...
@Brazilnut No worries. Your post may be referring to J.W's earlier post, which changes the meaning anyway. I am just trying to keep the peace, but I think all is OK now so I will try and post less often from now!
Lets not start picking on Cosey. As I have pointed out he/she has done nothing wrong. I think we should move on now otherwise I can see new users being accused of being Dallas or Rainbow1, putting people off joining this site.
@Cosey I was just explaining to everyone that it is not possible to verify users completely. All websites are faced with the same situation. You have done nothing wrong on here so there is no need to explain yourself. People also have the right to post on here even if they hate Dawlish. Rainbow1 and Dallas broke the forum terms even after I asked them to stop. Also, other users were ...
At first glance there is no connection between Cosey and Dallas, so I'd say it is unlikely they were the same people. However, you must remember it is impossible to be completely sure. All you can say is that the IP addresses of the computers were not the same.
That was due to some html formatting you pasted in your text also. I stripped this out and it displays OK now I think.
So do you think we should let dallas back? What are people's views?
I agree with you both so I have disabled the 2 users' accounts for the time being.
I've disabled the user and deleted the posts. I introduced a simple bot detection mechanism a while ago whereby the user has to enter the first and last letters of the chosen username in separate boxes. This is validated both on the client and the server. I admit it is not hard to for someone writing a spambot to program this in, but as I had not seen this used before I thought it would probably ...
Normally I try very hard not to delete posts unless I really have to, but in this instance I think everyone would agree that the thread is irrelevant (among other things) and so I have deleted it.
