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**Just2Good** · 12-29-2008, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin Bonham

Chesschat's list of posters online includes only those online in the last two hours, whereas OzChess includes everyone online on that day. (indeed today as I post they are spuriously "ahead" 110-103).

I know this because I have not been logged-in there for almost 24 hours and am still showing as online!

Not to disagree with the above statement because I simply haven't looked into the matter enough to know whether or not it could be true, but something that may have been overlooked is that often KB and antisense use the same ip address. So if antisense was looking at the site, even though KB had left, that could perhaps explain why KB still showed up as a guest after he logged out.

But another aspect to these mysteries is that the Admin CP Statistics only record daily post counts using New York time. For instance, at 3pm today, the stats will update providing a total daily post count for 28 December 2008, even though here in Australia that was essentially yesterday. So if KB was correct, then the system would likely record guest activity using New York's 24 hour cycle instead of Australia's which would further make it difficult to assess the guest count stats.

My personal view is that there should be no significant difference between the guest count function at either CC or OzChess because both use VBulletin's default settings to measure such.

Best Regards,

AO

12-29-2008, 03:00 PM	#11 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,057 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Stats Hard to Collate Originally Posted by Kevin Bonham Chesschat's list of posters online includes only those online in the last two hours, whereas OzChess includes everyone online on that day. (indeed today as I post they are spuriously "ahead" 110-103). I know this because I have not been logged-in there for almost 24 hours and am still showing as online! Not to disagree with the above statement because I simply haven't looked into the matter enough to know whether or not it could be true, but something that may have been overlooked is that often KB and antisense use the same ip address. So if antisense was looking at the site, even though KB had left, that could perhaps explain why KB still showed up as a guest after he logged out. But another aspect to these mysteries is that the Admin CP Statistics only record daily post counts using New York time. For instance, at 3pm today, the stats will update providing a total daily post count for 28 December 2008, even though here in Australia that was essentially yesterday. So if KB was correct, then the system would likely record guest activity using New York's 24 hour cycle instead of Australia's which would further make it difficult to assess the guest count stats. My personal view is that there should be no significant difference between the guest count function at either CC or OzChess because both use VBulletin's default settings to measure such. Best Regards, AO __________________ . "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller ~