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What are there bots, (eg. Google bot) are they human or are they spam bots.
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Prophet
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Every forum has them. They should be hidden, though.
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I also saw something a few days ago it said "[spider]" is that the same as a bot?
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I assume that the forum software can detect when access if from the search engine spiders. I.e. search engines have farms of computers running programs that wonder over all web pages following links to build the database that you search in. That is what the gray users are.
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Aury
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Prophet wrote:Every forum has them. They should be hidden, though.
Hard to do on phpbb3 - needs a mod
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They are web spiders crawlers, technically they are robots. However there is another kind of bot around here is:
<Ttech> Katami, Hello
<Katami> Ttech: Hello my child. What is your name?
<Ttech> Katami, How are you doing today?
<Katami> Ttech: Ah. I'm doing great, how about you?
<Ttech> Katami, I am not your child.
<Katami> Ttech: I am glad to hear that you are not my child.
<Ttech> Katami, I'm sure you are,
<Katami> Ttech: What makes you so certain? No I am not.
<Ttech> Katami, Do you like pizza?
* Katami you like pizza?
<Ttech> Katami, Alright that was weird
<Katami> Ttech: Alright, Ttech. I thought it was too.
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Aury
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Katami doesn't come on the forums though >.>
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yes such a pity isn't it.
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it cannot be helped, we could never activate it on the forums easily.
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