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Bot amusment

Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 2:20 am
by Flaming
If you look on whos online, you will often see bots. There are bing bots, google bots, baidu bots, and rarely msn bots.

If you click on whos online however, you will find out what the bots are looking at! :P

For example: (Times are -5)

Baidu [Spider]
 Sun May 11, 2014 10:13 pm
Reading topic in The Fallhaven Tavern

Bing [Bot]
 Sun May 11, 2014 10:10 pm
Reading topic in General Game Discussion

Spying on a bot is fun. 8-)

Is the chinese search engine baidu accualy a drunkard?

I got minimal amusment when i saw this, hence the topic name.

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 4:53 pm
by Ian
Haha lol! That's interesting :DDDD

Well I guess the bots don't wanna get spied so maybe Scott should do something about this? (the bots should search the forum completely anonymous)

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 7:34 pm
by Flaming
They are the color of devlopers. Grey.

Tsk Tsk those bots are always sharing personal info. We should ask for thier house. They will fall for it.

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 3:19 am
by ctnbeh13
"Majestic 12" is probably the most interesting bot to regularly visit.

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 3:30 am
by Flaming
Oh yeah... I forgot about that one.

I beleve that there is a couple of plargism bots scouting around for... Plargism.

Also... Baidu! You chinese creeper bots! Always gathering info... Nobody tell them your adress! They might be assasions!
I was going to say ninjas but that japenese. :(

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 3:42 am
by ctnbeh13
Here's a link to the page of what "Majestic-12" is willing to share regarding the information they've collected from our forum: http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site ... strail.com

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 7:35 pm
by Flaming
ctnbeh13 wrote:Here's a link to the page of what "Majestic-12" is willing to share regarding the information they've collected from our forum: http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site ... strail.com
Interesting...

TurnitinBot [Bot]
 Thu May 15, 2014 3:30 pm
Reading topic in Ideas and future development

Turnitin is a strange one, to add onto the list.

Re: Bot amusment

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 5:11 pm
by Zukero
The bots accounts are built into phpBB (our forum software).
It is useful to have them recognized because this way they are served an optimized version of the page which help lower the cpu and data consumption of our server.