What are these spider user(s)?

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balint
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What are these spider user(s)?

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Sometimes I see a ,,user,, active. It' name is written with grey and after the name you can see (spider)
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Re: What are these spider user(s)?

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they are bots searching the net to index them into eg. google search engine database.
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Re: What are these spider user(s)?

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ok
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BOTS SIGHTING

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I have noticed a Yahoo(bot) and Google(bot) on the forum recently! :o
if you have seen them, please report here to prove I am not entirely insane!
If I ever get my hands on those bots ill wring their necks with my own two hands! :twisted:
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Re: BOTS SIGHTING

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They're allowed here in order to index the pages for search engines (like Yahoo or Google).

This has already been answered before: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=317
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Re: BOTS SIGHTING

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Oh so I dont get to cut them open if I see them? :|
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Re: BOTS SIGHTING

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Hardeep wrote:Oh so I dont get to cut them open if I see them? :|
Or smash them ;)
But they don't spam us.
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Re: BOTS SIGHTING

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COOLguy wrote: But they don't spam us.
A bot is a bot in my books, no guarantees ;)
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