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Peter B
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by Peter B » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:35 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
I see from the bottom of the page that
Registered users: Google [Bot], Peter B, thomaswchapman, Yahoo [Bot]
are currently browsing. Now it may well be that these Bots are big LF fans
and maybe even a Bot can enjoy catching up on the site on a Saturday evening, but I'm bound to say that this is the only site I've seen where they show up as registered users
Are there any other lurkers we should be aware of?
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Joanna Carter
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by Joanna Carter » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:17 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Peter B wrote:I see from the bottom of the page that
Registered users: Google [Bot], Peter B, thomaswchapman, Yahoo [Bot]
are currently browsing. Now it may well be that these Bots are big LF fans
and maybe even a Bot can enjoy catching up on the site on a Saturday evening, but I'm bound to say that this is the only site I've seen where they show up as registered users
Are there any other lurkers we should be aware of?
I mentioned this to DJ and he assures me that this is normal for this version of phpBB; not all boards are running the latest version. The Bots are indexing every word uttered, so that others can find our forums when looking for topics discussed from Google, etc.
Reassure yourself - stroke an Ebony
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DJ
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by DJ » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:49 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
The spiderbots are always indexing.... you just usually don't know what they're up to, you can't escape the bots...
The latest and greatest version of our software comes with pre-defined accounts for all the major bots, which allows them special access to do their job and nothing else, and means they show up as users. If they're bothering anybody, we can make them invisible again.