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[hatehabsforever]

This may be a silly thread asking a silly question, but here goes anyway.

When you check the "who's online" section under "quick links," it tells you the number of people currently online (as well as who and what they are doing) including guests. Typically, the number is in the hundreds.

It states that the record number of people online was 3594 on 03/01/08, and it just made me wonder. What could have been on the go at that time to create a spike in number of people online 5-6 times the normal number? What was so interesting on that day and time to entice so many people online? I guess it was approaching Wrestlemania time, but even still, that's quite a jump in numbers.

Anyone have any theories as to what prompted so many people online on that day and time? Because the re-birth of the Monday Night Wars, the debut of Hogan, or anything else I could think of didn't produce numbers like that.

 

[Rhonda Rousey's Sports Bra]

Benoit I think.

 

[The Doctor]

Adbot invasion, I've heard.

 

[Coco]

Invation of bots, most likely.

 

[hatehabsforever]

Benoit I think.

The Benoit tragedy occurred in June of 2007, so why would that spark such a spike in "attendance" in March of 2008?

 

[Rhonda Rousey's Sports Bra]

Yeah just kidding, I figured that would have been a huge spike, but it was before that.

 

[Bernkastel]

It was a bot invasion; I remember the Beniot incident, tons of people online during that as well

 

[hatehabsforever]

It was a bot invasion; I remember the Beniot incident, tons of people online during that as well

OK, so I'll follow up on my stupid question with an equally stupid one.

What the hell is a bot invasion? Three of you have said this, and I don't doubt for a second you are all correct, but what exactly was this and why would it have occurred this one time?

 

[klunderbunker]

On forums a lot of the time you'll see what are called bots. They make posts with nothing but advertisements or something like that, typically for prescription drugs or porn etc. Since Maintenance Bot has been installed, these happen like once a year. Back then we would just have to ban them one by one. One day like 3000 of them came on at once and the whole place was flooded with ads.

 

[hatehabsforever]

On forums a lot of the time you'll see what are called bots. They make posts with nothing but advertisements or something like that, typically for prescription drugs or porn etc. Since Maintenance Bot has been installed, these happen like once a year. Back then we would just have to ban them one by one. One day like 3000 of them came on at once and the whole place was flooded with ads.

That makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation, I always wondered what would have caused such a bizarre and unexpected spike in numbers. I figured it had to be something out of the ordinary.

 

[latino World order]

The Benoit tragedy occurred in June of 2007, so why would that spark such a spike in "attendance" in March of 2008?

He came back to life and posted a thread on his adventure.