What Is This??? Anyone???

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hey.. I was just looking at who is online.. and there is a whole line of names like

Yahoo Slurp Spider
Gigabot Spider
Google Spider

what are those???? anyone??? DJ??
 
These are all spider bots from different search engines that look through everything we have here and add it to their search engines at the end of the week or daily or hourly depending on the search engine. The names tell you where theyre from. The gigabot is from gigablast.com
 
Oh Cool.. I was afraid I saw a bunch of Spam Bots running rampant in here like what happened in the Lair...
Thx for the clarification EmeraldDragon
 
More clarification....

Spambots dont announce their visits. Usually they randomly access a sites main page then try to search for a register link then they try the site/forum address looking for a register link if its simply a randomly run script. Other times a spambot is given a list of addresses to work from. A spambot begins registering automatically so you never see a name other than guest. Some have even been given a list of possible answers to the more basic registration authentication problems such as images with text where there are a limited number of images. Some are also pre-registered by regular people who leave the account inactive for a short period before setting up the bot for posting. So many ways of using a bot its unbelievable. Quite simply if it were a spam bot it would have struck before you realised its there. Its at this point when lightning fast moderation is really handy and with the crack team we have assembled here thats usually sorted good and sharpish.

Also the problems on the lair were not done by bots but by people from another forum that had problems with a member on the lair. It has since been resolved so lets try and forget about it.
 
Cool .. thx 4 the info.... i wasnt sure what was or wasnt... but I just thought Id check it out.... glad its not an issue.... laterz.
 
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