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Originally Posted by MJ
A bot (spider,robot or crawler) is a program that visits Web sites and reads their pages and other information in order to create entries for a search engine index. They also bring people to the site.
We have recently added a modification to the site that encourages "lurkers" to sign up. When they do sign up, a welcome PM is sent that encourages them to hop in and join us on the board, and it seems to be working great.
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That would explain why there are so many new registered users most recently, and why I will not win the 5,000 member contest

. I think on average there used to be about 3-4 new registered members per day, but it seems to have gone beyond that most recently, which is great!