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Bots?
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:17 pm
by 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]
Re: Bots?
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:24 pm
by Shadow Yoshi
Generally, these are web crawlers that are used for indexing search engine results, backlink tracking, and other things.
Re: Bots?
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:43 pm
by Bryan
If I recall correctly, it is some sort of glitch with the PhpBB forum software. Something a little abnormal, not a big deal.
Re: Bots?
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:56 pm
by silent_
All right, lock please.
Re: Bots?
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:36 pm
by Shadow Yoshi
Shade wrote: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).