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To answer the original question, it's actually a technical and administrative question --
"Why are there so many anonymous visitors on the site?"
One of the causes of the "anonymous" visitor is that the software Google uses to show you the most relevant ads for a particular post will actually appear as one of these "anonymous" visitors. But it's not a human, just a piece of software using a computer algorithm to try and show you a relevant ad. So many of those "anonymous" users are just this.
This question has come up so often, I wanted to put it to rest. The "Who's Online" functionality is not one something should spend a lot of time "reading into" as it's not 100% accurate and it's not put there for people to just watch...
Thanks,
DocJohn
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Once a member is deleted, the system resets everything that member has ever written to a generic anonymous user. There is a glitch that makes this show as something else in PMs, as noted.
We make no public record of banned or suspended members because I believe it violates their privacy rights. Nobody is ever banned or suspended without plenty of advanced warnings and attempts to try and bring that members' behavior inline with the guidelines, however, so such members should notify friends of such a possibility long before it happens.
DocJohn
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And a link to my own thread when I "Saw" someone online as anonymous who was actively posting.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/showf...v=1#Post620739
You can use the Advanced Search (up in the right hand corner) click on it to bring up specifics to search for such as a word "anonymous" or a person "DocJohn" and you can read all about the subjects questioned above.
Yes, the only way to do that legitimately is to PM Clyde with the desired post and he, out of the goodness of his heart, will post it for you.