Visited: Never

Every now and then I like to go into the member section just to see what's happening. It's always shocking to see how many new registrations there are each day. Often there are 25 or more in a single day! However, when you look at "last visited", the VAST majority of the members have "never" next to their names. I'm so confused! How do you register if you've never visited...?

Dear Angie:
At my daughter's school, it seemed that the same six or eight parents volunteered at a public school with 1,051 students. There were a number of parents who helped out in each of their children's actual classrooms, they just were not able to do the more visible volunteer positions. Maybe this forum is just like the school volunteers. I came to this column not knowing just how helpful everyone was. I am constantly inspired, and awed by the level of talent I see before me here. Maybe those non-visitors simply do not know what they are missing. (Or else they think they are so talented that there is no room for improvement.) I know that I will always have to strive to push myself higher. So, I visit. And I visit. Sometimes, I post.
The banal explanation could be that they forgot their password!
The only people who will see your post are the ones that visit! The people who do not visit will never see this.
xoxo
Lisa
fesspenter

Well, I'm wondering more about the technical side of things. Such as, don't you have to visit the site in order to register? I would think that anyone who registered would show as visiting at least once, on the date that they registered.

But yes, as far as the other I am sure you're right. Probably lots of lost passwords, or visiting without signing in maybe.

Before you register you are a guest... After you log on and visit you would be a member with a visit...

Could these be people who register to buy things from the forum shop and not to use the actual forum?

Or if you're checking out visits of brand new members that just signed up that day, there wouldn't be visits logged yet because they were logged as 'guest' for their visits before then. Like Suzy said!

I know when I registered it took a little while to get "approved" (few days...almost a week if I remember correctly) and I had almost forgotten about it. I think I waited at least another week before I actually logged in and had a renewed interest. I bet some people who just had a mild interest in face painting never come back at all....or not till way later. I think someone (Monna maybe) had mentioned that she registered in 2008 and had just again found the forum and forgotten she had already signed up, tried to register and found she already had a login.