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Originally Posted by KC911

I posted a thread some time back about "active users", and how it was artificially extremely high at times.... as that is something that I notice when I access the site via mobile view. I still see older threads revived by "suspicious users" outta the blue.... same old stuff.

This morning, when I first visited ... the total count was around 650 active users, and the site was "working fine" ... within a few minutes, the site became VERY sloooow, and not even responding. So I took another peek ... all of a sudden it had jumped to 3300 (abnormally high for ANY time of day). This is at 6:30 am EST ..... it's an "attack" and not by REAL users .... could be bots or just bogus "connections" ... I dunno. I only see the impact ... and it just cripples the site's performance.

But old threads being revived appear to be bot-like....

I'll get over it

edit: They are still here as of this post.... but latent imo.

Yeah, I've seen the old threads bumped for no apparent reason by bots. I think it's been theorized that they bump the threads, wait a while, and then go back and edit a post with an image or some code to help various sites/products with search engine placement.

I rarely notice the active member count. But wow, 3300 is crazy. They are basically DoS the site (intentionally or not).