How global is dubsounds

[vortex]

Where are our active members

OK England is a given.
NZ for me............

[nervejam]

Interesting question. Do you mean the website, or just the forum?
Dubsounds.com is not the same as dubsounds.proboards.com..
The "members list" doesn't give any indication.

Do you just mean "where are the members located" or do you mean "where is the site most visited from"?

I use Google analytics on all my websites to track my visitor trends.
It doesn't track individuals.
A typical snapshot from NerveJam.Com looks like this:

United Kingdom 88
United States 58
Italy 10
Germany 9
France 7
Netherlands 6
Canada 4
India 4
Australia 4
Argentina 3


Oh, err, I'm in England.. I would have said United Kingdom, but it's not (United), or even Great Britain but that's not (Great) either.

[ethersine]

I would be easier to tell if everyone added some locational information to their profile. At least as far as the forum is concerned.

[Gavin]

Jul 8, 2010 10:00:30 GMT nervejam said:

Interesting question. Do you mean the website, or just the forum?
Dubsounds.com is not the same as dubsounds.proboards.com..
The "members list" doesn't give any indication.

Do you just mean "where are the members located" or do you mean "where is the site most visited from"?

I use Google analytics on all my websites to track my visitor trends.
It doesn't track individuals.
A typical snapshot from NerveJam.Com looks like this:

United Kingdom 88
United States 58
Italy 10
Germany 9
France 7
Netherlands 6
Canada 4
India 4
Australia 4
Argentina 3


Oh, err, I'm in England.. I would have said United Kingdom, but it's not (United), or even Great Britain but that's not (Great) either.

You dont have South London listed. #buggered#

[nervejam]

Jul 10, 2010 3:02:50 GMT ethersine said:

I would be easier to tell if everyone added some locational information to their profile. At least as far as the forum is concerned.

I agree. However, the member list is visible to anyone, thus making you a target for spammers. It's not hard to grab ALL the data from the members list screen and add it to a mailing list, automatically, with a couple of clicks..

You DID remember to set "hide e-mail" in your profile?, otherwise you have just handed it over for free.. and they know where you are located. Targetted spam.

I can hear it coming down the pipe now.. big lumps of brown stuff clanging along, muffled only by the wads of smeggy bogroll.

(Sorry. But that's how I feel about spam.)

[ethersine]

Sure spam is annoying, but it's a fact of life and there's no reason to get your bloomers in a bunch about it. With a decent ISP and spam filter it is a minor annoyance at best.

Spam is spam,,,targeted or not. In fact, unless you block specific cookies like I do, you are receiving targeted advertizing all the time.

Thanks for pointing out the members list. In over a year, I've never noticed it. I also didn't realize that I had made my email visible, but I've noticed no sudden increase in spam.

I was not suggesting you provide your street and house number; just a general location.

[edit 07/13/10] Reply to Nervejam: It seems I've jinxed myself. I posted a comment to a website yesterday, I've been bombarded with over a hundred spam emails in 24 hours. I've used all of my tricks to block, but they still wind up in the spam filter. That'll teach me! [/edit]

[nervejam]

My aversion to spam comes from running several websites with memberships and subscriptions etc. I get about 50 spammers joining-up per day. Used to be more like 100+ when I had a phpbb forum as well.
I now have it pretty-much tied down, so I can deal with the buggers in about 5 mins a day..

[MrArkadin]

Jul 10, 2010 11:28:01 GMT Gavin said:

You dont have South London listed. #buggered#

Yeah man, there's a bunch of us in Sarf Lahndon, innit.