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Unregistered users don't show up on the users page, but I'd really like to have some information about them. Like

  • How many of them are there?
  • Are there many high-rep unregistered users? (if yes, I'd like to know so that I can find out why they don't register)
  • Are there lots of duplicates among >1 rep unregistered users? Some unregistered users throw away the cookie that the site uses to identify them, so they end up with lots of unregistered accounts.

Is there any way to browse unregistered users? If not, I'd like to have one.

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+1. I was thinking about this very need today. Along with this feature-request [ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/… ] Anton's would go a long way to helping unregistered users convert to being registered (and gain all the associated benefits). – dj Dec 14 at 21:04

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For # of unregistered users, you can just find the latest registered user, and see their #, then subtract that from the list of registered users to get the actual idea.

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It's a bit hacky, but it does the trick. To my surprise, this reveals that I only have about 200 unregistered users, compared to about 950 registered users. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since you actually have to do something to become an unregistered user, and fewer than 300 of the registered users have >1 reputation. – Anton Geraschenko Oct 26 at 4:09
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 Does anyone have a simple script that iterates through all the user-numbers and generates a list of unregistered users? – Collin Li Nov 1 at 16:57

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