Bots?

[silent_]

This might be a ridiculously stupid question, but why the hell in the Registered Users section are their bots like the following?

MSNbot Media

Google [Bot]

[Shadow Yoshi]

Generally, these are web crawlers that are used for indexing search engine results, backlink tracking, and other things.

[Bryan]

If I recall correctly, it is some sort of glitch with the PhpBB forum software. Something a little abnormal, not a big deal.

[silent_]

All right, lock please.

[Shadow Yoshi]

If I recall correctly, it is some sort of glitch with the PhpBB forum software. Something a little abnormal, not a big deal.

Bots are supposed to be displayed on the index page.

Unless Kep means that they're being displayed somewhere else that explicitly states it's displaying Registered Users? I don't think that's the case, though.

EDIT: Yup, Kep meant "Registered Users" on the index page. Bots are registered users; they have certain permissions on different forums (mostly just restrictions on viewing profiles and stuff).