Many people get a heap of information just by reading posts and not joining. Eventually some of them do join if they want to contribute/ask a question/whatever.
In addition, this site is visited by many search engine crawlers often multiple times a day. These show up as visitors so it can artificially inflate the figures. Aaaaannnd, due to some issues new members had when writing their stories (the site would time out for some and they'd have to redo it), I increased the timeout limit to an hour I think. What this means is that if you visit the site and then go somewhere else, you'll still be seen as 'online' for up to an hour later, same goes for visitors. When you see the total people online you can probably divide them in half to get a more realistic number.
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