How do you vist FMD most of the time? Guest, Hidden, or Logged in and Visible?

[Darth Buddha]

Simple enough a question... I want to know how you usually visit.

Do you usually lurk not logged in?

Do you log in, but you chose "hidden" in your preferences?

Do you log in and are visible for all to see?

I think this will help inform the "how many guests are really members" question that so many ask.

[Kurt_eh]

Funny that. No lurkers yet! ;)

[Darth Buddha]

We CAN'T have a vote for lurkers...

But we CAN figure out roughly how many "lurkers" are really FMD members.. in a proportional sense.

[scrape_medic]

and how many have grinner on their bottoms.........er don't mind me.....carry on

[grinner]

:nana:

[LT Garrix]

I stay logged in. It's just easier to post.

[Darth Buddha]

Hmmmm... so if this trend were to hold at 5 to 9 (I doubt it will), we'd guesstimate that there are half as many FMD members visible as not.... so we'd devide the current 54 by 9 and then multiply by five... 30 members invisible out of 37 "guests" so only seven unregistered can't be accounted for. I'd say the results of this poll would be an UNDER estimate, and using that under estimate we still only have seven out of 94 users as true lurkers.

Seems to me there really aren't that many non-FMD viewers. But this is just an early estimate. We need more votes!

[divinedaydreams]

I'm interested to see how this poll develops.

[scrape_medic]

see I thought that if you logged in but were hidden, you would be counted amongst the number of members veiwing but not listed as a member or a guest in the who's online section....otherwise the numbers don't add up....??

[grinner]

no, if you are hidden, you get counted as a guest. Log on late at night and look at the user/guest comparision.

[who45]

I stay logged in and I'm out there for all to see :D

[Darth Buddha]

no, if you are hidden, you get counted as a guest. Log on late at night and look at the user/guest comparision.

Thanks for fielding that one grinner. I guess I should have mentioned that up front.

[stellar]

I stay logged in. I don't care who knows I'm here.

[canadadoc]

So here you are the lurker who is a member. I usually just lurk and log on to post only. I am at work a lot of the time so just have time to check new posts through the day.

[NYPinTA]

I stay logged in. I don't care who knows I'm here.

you rebel.

[KayandTonio]

Like Canadadoc, I'm at work most of the time I'm here so I usually just read stuff. I don't bother logging in unless I'm going to post something. Lurk lurk Lurk! :D

K

[Jul]

keep in mind that if you don't stay active within a fifteen minute window, you are no longer represented in the count... ;)

[Darth Buddha]

Ah! Thanks for that info, Jul.

[BrowderChick]

Does this make me a lurker? :rollin:

[Farscape Forever]

You spend one night lurking outside in the bushes by Claudia Black's house and your labeled for life is that it?

[Col. Kathryn O'Neill]

stay logged in ;)

[grinner]

You spend one night lurking outside in the bushes by Claudia Black's house and your labeled for life is that it?
*grumblegrumblegrumble*

[stellar]

you rebel.

Frelling-A.

[MediaSavant]

None of the options offered really describes my behavior. At work, I do not log in. Thus, I count as a guest anytime I visit during a weekday. But, at home, I do stay logged in.

This is a strategy on my part to prevent myself from spending time posting at the office. If I'm not logged in (and I don't recall my password), I can't post.

[SabaceanBabe]

I'm here for all the world to see! :D (MS, I love it!)

[LT Garrix]

I like being logged in because I can use the New Post button. I generally manage to have the self restraint not to post much at work. :D

[Sarumouse]

I never log off! Why should I? ;)

[Sarumouse]

Oh, I'm at work!!! So don't tell anyone...

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

I'm a rebel too!!! :aok: Always logged in! :yes:
I'd like to ask a question though....why do members want to be hidden? :shrug:

[Jellyfish]

Sorry dumb quetion follows....When we are talking about hidden is that the same thing as the Use Invisible Mode in the edit options page or is there another way of being hidden.......em..... without being invisible?

[grinner]

being invisible.

[Jellyfish]

I'm a rebel too!!! :aok: Always logged in! :yes:
I'd like to ask a question though....why do members want to be hidden? :shrug:Well then to answer Johns girls question I am hidden but I have no idea why I decided to tick the box. I can only put it down to my canny Scottish upbringing.

[trinamick]

I'm here for all the world to see. Unless you're my boss. Then I'm not here. And you shouldn't be either. You have court today.:D

[Madre Farbot]

When I'm working on me other computer (Ferrari), I like to sneak in quickly, stay around awhiles without being seen and then slink out slowly away from prying eye. Yeah, I'm a sneaky mutant ninja kung-Fooey hair-bear guy. Yay, don't mess with me muthas! OMG... I've dropped me pills on the floor... :fear:

[BaseLine]

When I'm working on me other computer (Ferrari), I like to sneak in quickly, stay around awhiles without being seen and then slink out slowly away from prying eye.

You have an Acer Ferrari? Nice.

[stellar]

I can see you.

[Darth Buddha]

Hmm... the relative numbers of FMD members who can't be seen seems to be rather less than I thought.

Maybe we DO have a bunch of non-FMD members cruising this site.

[Sponge]

I usually lurk while I'm looking around for interesting topics to post on. Then I log in.

Oftentimes, I'll find one or two more soon afterwards, so I stay logged in until I need to go out or get some sleep :D .

[Madre Farbot]

You have an Acer Ferrari? Nice.

I've somehow miraculously re-appeared, and am ready to jump into the action again. Yo, BaseLine, I'm affraid that was a typo error; It should have read Volvo Estate. :rollin:

If ever I were to get meself a PC notebook it would either be one of those sleek looking Sony Viao's, or perhaps your choice of Acer Ferrari 3000 orange-colored deliciously sleek looking notebook. I'm a Mac-man meself, but that hasn't stopped me thinking about PCs, after all, I did start out with one back in 1995!

[Clarsax]

I stay logged in and fully visible.

[vikingscaper]

I always stay logged in and visible. I don't like going invisible because I don't want people to see through me. :D

[BaseLine]

or perhaps your choice of Acer Ferrari 3000 orange-colored deliciously sleek looking notebook.

Orange!? It's red, Ferrari RED ;)

[FrelledProwler]

If ever I were to get meself a PC notebook it would either be one of those sleek looking Sony Viao's, or perhaps your choice of Acer Ferrari 3000 orange-colored deliciously sleek looking notebook. I'm a Mac-man meself, but that hasn't stopped me thinking about PCs, after all, I did start out with one back in 1995!

Acer Ferrari 3000.....Powered by AMD (cheap shameless plug).

[Craistine]

I depends on my location. When I´m at work, I drop in here and there as a guest. At home, I´m usually logged as a visible member.

[faustus]

when I'm here evryone should know

[AgentSun]

i'm logged in constantly and i'm visible...though lately not so much, cause school has been kicking my eema all over the place. between that, and people wanting to do stuff, oy!

[ChianaGray]

I have invisible chosen but I can still see my name on the who's online list. I'd rather be invisible. I don't like the idea of just anyone knowing my every move, it affects my lurking and I feel like I'm under a microscope. I'm paranoid.

:run:

[SabaceanBabe]

I have invisible chosen but I can still see my name on the who's online list. I'd rather be invisible. I don't like the idea of just anyone knowing my every move, it affects my lurking and I feel like I'm under a microscope. I'm paranoid.

:run:

I think it's the Nebari in you...

[ChianaGray]

hehehe

[Darth Buddha]

I have invisible chosen but I can still see my name on the who's online list. I'd rather be invisible. I don't like the idea of just anyone knowing my every move, it affects my lurking and I feel like I'm under a microscope. I'm paranoid.

:run:

YOU can see your name (with an asterisk or some other marking not on the other names) but nobody else can.

[La Bomba]

I usually log in and I'm visible. Sometimes, like today, I'm using invisible mode. It's for no other reason than it makes me feel sneaky.:D