June 12, 200818 yr I was looking at the user's online and saw this(i edited it so it would fit on this page): Do we have bots posting adds or whats going on?
June 12, 200818 yr It might be the Google bot that generates ads at the top of the page or something, there better not be any ad bots that post in threads... they're so annoying!
June 12, 200818 yr It's a google web crawler that indexes pages for searches. Before they would have been viewed as guests, but phpbb3 distinguishes them from normal users now. Nothing to worry about, and no, they won't spam the forums :P When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~Jonathan SwiftWebsite Updates/Corrections here. WE APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT! Crewbie's Missions!Contributor of the Day!Thanks to artists: Destro3979, Guthix121, Shivers21, and Unoalexi.
June 12, 200818 yr It's a google web crawler that indexes pages for searches. Before they would have been viewed as guests, but phpbb3 distinguishes them from normal users now. Nothing to worry about, and no, they won't spam the forums :P For all we know! Google is going to take over the world! We will be helpless to these "harmless" bots! :twisted: JK, noting to worry about. :) RIP MichaelangelopolousThanks to cowboy14 for the pimp sig!
June 12, 200818 yr Don't forget about the yahoo ones as well(there's another one I can't think of atm)
June 12, 200818 yr Moved to Forum Updates & Suggestions. And, it is the Google Bot that just caches the pages. :) ~Rcty Rcty
June 14, 200818 yr Make that 52 default bots (that are recognized by phpBB3), I've seen a script that adds something like 100 or so more to be recognized by phpBB3. <.< >.> (Beware, the Bots are going to eat j00! RUN, LITTLE NUBS!) My MOD Queue and MODs - StarTrekGuide
June 16, 200818 yr I remember another forum, where the robots.txt had to be tweaked with various rate limit commands for bots, as they were sending multiple spiders and hammering too hard.
June 16, 200818 yr The google bot is their to cache the webpages incae of things like the recent forum "blackout" Proud Ubuntu User!There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. -Scott AdamsA computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.-Emo PhillipsMy Blog!
June 17, 200818 yr Make that 52 default bots (that are recognized by phpBB3), I've seen a script that adds something like 100 or so more to be recognized by phpBB3. There's more than just 100 though, there's bots for certain business corporations that go through the internet and basically survey the text found on pages. Even though it's inaccurate in most cases, they are getting to be quite accurate. They use this for marketing and designing new products. It's quite sleazy. -.-
June 17, 200818 yr That little crawling critter there saved plenty of people's threads and posts from the recent forum blackout. Give it some love.
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