235 guests
 

on ryl right now..





... hahaha.

fabulous...

haha
we're so popularrrr :D

Hiya!

not be a guess join up.

we don't bite!
or, well, not hard!

That always scares me.

i get werided out when i see guests reading something i have posted...
sorta

i mean...they dont have a SCREEN NAME... shock horror!

^^ I agree with above...
Guests freak me out. It's so anonymous...even though it is the internet.
I'm a bit paranoid, and I'm always afraid that the same guests are tailing me across the board...

right!
and if i was a lurk, I don't think i'd choose a self harm site..haha


but i guess that means we can assume most of them are genuinely interested in ryl? but still, 235. really.

A lot of them (if not most) seem to be Yahoo Slurp Spiders:yeah:

Are those slurp spiders people that have basically googled words that are in the posts on ryl?

175 atm hummhum, its not hard to join :P

They are Yahoo's web indexing "crawlers". They are go over the web recording and indexing the info that shows up on searches. I remember Google's crawlers used to show up all at once at RYL V2. All of a sudden at midnight 100 "guests" would show up and looking at chart you could see them going through a lot of posts. I've seen more complaints about Yhaoo's slurp spiders since there aeem to be so many of them. Some complained they were emailing members whatever that would be for

Thats so SCARY...
eww like little spiders analysing all the stuff we write
eeeek

yooo guests :)

Can't anything be done about that? I mean, posts here are private and personal... Like can't we get some verification code or something?

Freeeeky

scary.


edit: to the above, nothing here is "private." it's the internet!
if you don't want people to see it, don't post it on a public forum?

What linda said.

I like the fact I can tell the whole world, yet still feel I have enough anonimity to not have people I know crawling over my posts and reading them all. :)

Yeah duh kinda knew that... My point was that things stated here are personal. It seems unfair that this kinda stuff should be going on but I guess there's nothing much that can be done about it.

and my point was, it's not unfair at all! if you don't want people to know, don't post it on the internet.
you're already hiding behind your screenname anyway.
i personally don't care, unless someone i know in real life comes on here and "discovers" me. i don't really care about strangers reading about my so-called problems because i don't know them..

OK not interested in starting a debate, if you have a problem or continuously disagree you can either drop it or pm me but this thread is for something else. I don't want conflict.

Maybe.. they're scared of joining.

Join now.

Anyway, they're not really that much more annonymous that many of the RYL users, who's profiles are just a screenname.. except there are more of them.

And their spiders.
Anonymous spiders.
Why can't they be just anonymous humans?
I agree, there is something eerie about a slurp spider.

^ exactly
it makes my skin crawl
spiders on the internet
ewww
=P

as if the spiders in the corners of our rooms weren't enough!
and upwards of 200 spiders!
upsetting.

I say we go on a spider hunt.
*gets spider hunting mechanism*
Who's with me?

279 at the moment. Come in and join us. Lurkers scare me a bit

Most of the time I forget to log in. So I appear as a guest >.<.