The World's #1 Volvo Site

Post by **BlackBart** » 06 Apr 2021, 11:02

Matt - I have a question about the on-line users list at the bottom of the page. What are all the Bots signed in as registered users? Can a computer server sign itself up to a forum to search for phrases or terms? And why does it need to in order to search?

Also - when I'm not signed in I see a big blue box saying you're now the World's # 1 Volvo site (!!!) When did that happen, and how is it determined? And congratulations to you!

Post by **matthew1** » 06 Apr 2021, 13:46

Hi BB

I split this off from Non-Volvo Car Megathread...

Well, there is no sanctioning body

so I took it upon myself to anoint MVS with that title. Numerically, SS is ahead, but perhaps if you look at what I'd call Total Aggregate Help, MVS is ahead. There are nearly 2k (mostly) well documented repairs/prevention/DIYs in the Volvo Repair Database, which is an advantage in this purely made up TAH metric. The ones that aren't well documented I've been combing through for about a year and either making them so or deleting them.

Whatever the case, MVS has served around 100 million pages to around 15M users over the years, so I think I can bend MVS marketing to say MVS is #1.

As for the bots, they didn't create accounts. Those are pre-programmed user profiles that are on every phpBB install from Day 1, and they just serve to show if any particular bot is active at any given time. phpBB code looks at request patterns, and if the characteristics match the bot criteria, that visit is logged and displayed as that bot.

Post by **abscate** » 26 Apr 2021, 05:50

The metric for Top website is

Amount of Help - Number of Wankers/Plonkers/ Tossers

.....Which puts us far ahead of any other car forum.

Post by **matthew1** » 26 Apr 2021, 13:18

The subtraction of -- as opposed to division by -- $int_wankers makes us look much, much better.

Marketing is everything.