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Aganju: Yes, the number of active profiles is probably in the 2000-3000 range.
Then there's a "background noise" of people who log on once, then leave again. Seems to be (roughly) 5000 a year, or 100 a week.
And there's some "multinicks" like Bwild suggested, people who keep multiple accounts for whatever reason. But it won't be easy to make an estimate of those.
I may try to keep track of these numbers over time and see if there is any significant change.
pedestrian: The multi-nick (or 'cheater') topic has been discussed a lot, also on other game sites. On the server end, there are some pretty efficient ways to catch them: 1. IP address comparison. 2. Whenever a user logs on, store the IDs that logged off in the previous three minutes. After ten times, if the same ID is in the list too often, it's with high probability a multi nick. 3. Compare the lists from 1. and 2. with who plays whom. Same user IDs come up, there you go.
You can imagine that with some fiddling and tuning, this would be rather efficient. Unfortunately, you need to have server access, as the IP address for example is otherwise private data.
The next question would be - what do you do with multi-nicks? Delete them and lose all running games? Remove any positive rating efffects from playing between them?
Aganju: In my experience, a significant number of multi nics on this site, are here for other reasons than cheating. Many have mind games going on, rather than board games.
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