• An addendum to Rule 3 regarding fan-translated works of things such as Web Novels has been made. Please see here for details.
  • We've issued a clarification on our policy on AI-generated work.
  • Our mod selection process has completed. Please welcome our new moderators.
  • Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
  • For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
  • Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
  • Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
  • The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.

Concerning Numbers of Guests

Cambrian

Cambrian

The Pimperor - Inspirational as Fuck
Joined
Aug 17, 2014
Messages
30,394
Likes received
1,254,517
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but just wanted to bring something to mod attention while also leaving room for others to tell me I'm being dumb.

At the time of this posting, QQ has 20,652 guests showing under Members Online:

image.png
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Considering that most of the website is locked behind a user account and even Spacebattles only has 8,656 guests at the moment, this feels really, really strange to me.

I guess my main concern is that these are bots of some kind and they will be a strain on the website's resources just by being around. So I wanted it to be pointed out just in case it was something that should or even can be investigated/dealt with.

Also happy to be told I'm a fearmongering moron and there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for 20k guests to just be chilling here.

EDIT: Its gone up another 600 guests in the past 5 minutes too.
 
Last edited:
No, I agree that this is very sus. It looks like there's a lot of guests viewing random pages as quickly as they can.
 
Last edited:
Random Omnipotent Being said:
No, I agree that this is very sus. It looks like there's a lot of guests viewing random pages as quickly as they can.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Honestly its likely just bots scraping the SFW section of the website since its the only part of the website they can reach as guests. Either to repost content on scam websites, or to feed into their LLMs to train the AI on the writing.

I assume it'll probably die down once they run through the rather tiny amount of content they can actually scrape as guests seeing as 90% of the website is locked behind having an account.
 
Imagine trying to train your probably sfw AI in writing with a porn website. The number of guests is still going up and they're looking at profiles too.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

  • ... and 3 more.
    • Total: 7 (members: 6, guests: 1)
    Back
    Top