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Is this some kind of a record?
I occasionally check the main page to see what the member/lurker ratio is. At this moment it's Currently Active Users: 2249 (2 members and 2247 guests).
Two active members is not unusual, lately; but a thousand Guests is more usual. This is twice that.
I've come to accept that a large percentage of those are auto-bots scouring for data driven by advertiser's appetite (more lately turbocharged by AI?).
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04-02-2025, 09:00 AM
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Doesn't a user require having an account? Some forums also require a couple of posts before you become official. I see nothing that prevents a bot being here, if they really are here. Could be registered but not a user if they haven't posted.
Could explain the spate of odd comments lately from newbies.
Newst member (beautybyjulijashop25) doesn't sound serious enough to want to improve efficiency unless they shave heads or something, BUT could be showing my male machismo prejudices
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04-02-2025, 09:29 AM
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It might be my fault. I mentioned ecomodder in some YouTube comments about fuel economy.
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04-20-2025, 08:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by freebeard
I occasionally check the main page to see what the member/lurker ratio is. At this moment it's Currently Active Users: 2249 (2 members and 2247 guests).
Two active members is not unusual, lately; but a thousand Guests is more usual. This is twice that.
I've come to accept that a large percentage of those are auto-bots scouring for data driven by advertiser's appetite (more lately turbocharged by AI?).
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I have at least 50 tabs open at any one time, one of which is inevitably Ecomodder.
Thats on a machine always on. (mining)
The the active member is you! 
You might also find the search result order for:
better fuel economy boric acid oil additive
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04-20-2025, 02:00 PM
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The currently active members are listed.
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04-20-2025, 02:20 PM
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Interesting that the most activity here occurred October of last year with 50k users. Must have been a big bot spree around then.
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04-21-2025, 07:06 AM
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Hey, freebeard, what are you feeding the bots?
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04-21-2025, 12:17 PM
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I think it's aerohead. Ten posts in an hour and seventeen minutes this morning.
Further, the commercial messaging on my private phone is down, from a half dozen to one or two a day.
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04-22-2025, 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by freebeard
I think it's aerohead. Ten posts in an hour and seventeen minutes this morning.
Further, the commercial messaging on my private phone is down, from a half dozen to one or two a day.
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Ye, the std trying to make difficult questions recede in the rearview mirror stuff.
(At least one whole forum page of text blocks back to my last post)
And all with Laws of Physics defying BS!
Looks like I'm off to Senegal for 3-4 months, so wont be able to post much, if at all.
Then all sorts of trying to poke holes in video of before after BA in car, dyno runs, compression tests, gas analysis, economy numbers etc will start!
Oops! Forewarned is forearmed! shhh!!! 
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04-22-2025, 06:24 PM
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Suspicions confirmed:
There're bad bots and good bots?
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