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Old 24th January 2016, 18:23   #11
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Guests can't post anyway. guests means non-members not non-paying members.

True, if they (members, paying or non-paying) haven't logged in for some reason then they may be seen as guests - so can only read posts.
OK, never realised there were 3 classes of people accessing the forum.

I understand now.
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Old 24th January 2016, 20:30   #12
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I'm sure a mod can articulate this better than I but those 'guests' might not actually be people. They may be 'bots' indexing the forum. Rise of the machines...
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Old 24th January 2016, 22:32   #13
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Even now there are 32 members and 71 guests viewing the forum. Seems to be more guests viewing the forum than logged in members for most of the evening.
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Old 24th January 2016, 22:43   #14
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Probably all the banned members on here as guests
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Old 25th January 2016, 09:11   #15
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Just think of all that free advice and you dont have to pay a penny.
Is ten pounds really a lot to ask for to get the knowledge and advice in keeping our cars on the road.

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Old 25th January 2016, 09:30   #16
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Just think of all that free advice and you dont have to pay a penny.
Is ten pounds really a lot to ask for to get the knowledge and advice in keeping our cars on the road.

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Agreed but you can join for free as well and then no longer be a 'guest'
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Old 25th January 2016, 09:46   #17
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Agreed but you can join for free as well and then no longer be a 'guest'
Yes! but I dont want to be a guess what???

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Old 25th January 2016, 10:00   #18
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Some of those 50 guests maybe using the site for fraudulent purposes, to gather certain information to build profiles of us all.

Even benefit agencies use social media forums to combat benefit fraud, people can give so much valuable information away unknowingly.

Just be careful...

Not that I'm paranoid or anything.

But! its true, this does happen.
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Old 25th January 2016, 10:15   #19
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Some of those 50 guests maybe using the site for fraudulent purposes, to gather certain information to build profiles of us all.

Even benefit agencies use social media forums to combat benefit fraud, people can give so much valuable information away unknowingly.

Just be careful...

Not that I'm paranoid or anything.

But! its true, this does happen.
I must be too honest and see good in all folk because I never gave a thought to the first paragraph of your post.
I did know that the benefits troll social media and quite rightly in my opinion, many many, silly folk have dropped themself into the doo doo.
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Old 25th January 2016, 12:21   #20
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Even benefit agencies use social media forums to combat benefit fraud, people can give so much valuable information away unknowingly.
Social media and their own CCTV led to this gang's undoing. The link is to the article, but the full programme is on BBC iPlayer - Week In Week Out - The Great Car Crash Con

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35372743

Unbelievable that this lot are said to have been responsible for up to £2 million of insurance fraud. No wonder premiums are so high.

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