Miserable Users question, need help.

What would happen if MU was installed, set up to only slightly delay things, and applied to the 'guests / not logged in' group?

My goal would be to slow things down for people slightly that are not logged in. Would that work?

 

Bad idea imo.
As a guest, I would be turned off a site if it was not loading fast/properly.

 

My personal experience is, that no kind of disadvantage or even incentive on the opposite will motivate passive users to contribute more frequently.

IMO it´s always a good deal of a personal decision: if a user is interested in the topics of the forum, she/he will join frequently. If not, no decline of a user-experience will be able to give a significant appeal. Moreover, the miserable user won´t know about the coherence of her/his experience and the degree/lack of former participation. As MordyT stated, it most likely would be an experience of frustration.

This would even be more frustrating, if the reasons of absence don´t reflect the interest, but other maybe personal issues.

I like the notice here after a time of being away, which is friendly and reminds me to visit this wonderful board more often!

 

The key word is slightly as in a 'tiny' bit of slow down. If possible not enough delay so the average human would be bothered too much.

How would it affect the bots? Would it slow them down?

I am quite aware about the "google cares how fast the site responds" issue, but was curious if the bots, or any other IPs not logged in, would be slowed down a bit.

 

My question, what are you trying to achieve? Do you want people to get aggravated and leave your site???

If a site loads slow, people are more likely to leave.

 

I got some *really* odd visitors. about 100 connections from the same IP, all trying to start up new threads at the same time. Clearly a bot or program of some type. I've got a fairly good idea who was doing that and am following up.

It was not bad enough to call it a ddos, or dos in this case. The server was responding so there was no way to automatically detect there was a problem from monitoring services. But the server kept giving errors. It was bad enough I could not log into cpanel and the host needed to block/firewall the IP.

So, my wild idea, is to ask if the miserable users add on could give a tiny delay.

Probably a daft question. Does Paul M still visit AA?

 

Add the ip address to your firewall rules.

Chances are its a spam bot. Have you looked the address up at the "Stop Forum Spam" site or the honey pot project?

 

The hosting provider did firewall the IPs.

Had not thought about it being a spam bot actually. I had assumed it was a disgruntled semi-technical member that wrote a script. I'll follow up with that, thanks.

Although I would still like an answer to my original question, would the miserable users affect that situation if it was applied to guests.