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Postby A dude named Vince » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:42 am

One last thing before I randomly leave for an undetermined amount of time again. Has anyone ever noticed that we always seem to have a handful of guests? There always seems to be one or two around, but when I looked a second ago I saw 8. Do a lot of you hide your online status, or do we just have a bunch of lurkers?
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Postby gforce422 » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:43 am

Could be lurkers. Or bots. More likely the latter.
gforce422 is awesome because:
-He made the absolute nicest comments about me in the other topic. I didn't respond to them yet, because I suck, but they are greatly appreciated! =D
-I would say he would also be a good runner up as one of the nicest people alive.
-He joined the IRC sometimes. But not enough, I say! Chat moar =D
-He is evidently only 18 year old but he could easily pass for 25. =D
-He is a drummer like *I* am and this in itself is cool.
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Postby A dude named Vince » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:44 am

I hadn't considered bots.... Though I fail to understand why one would want one for a forum. Besides flaming or a crap load of alts.
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Postby gforce422 » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:48 am

I think the bots just try to harvest people's email addresses and then attempt to send them spam based on their keywords.
gforce422 is awesome because:
-He made the absolute nicest comments about me in the other topic. I didn't respond to them yet, because I suck, but they are greatly appreciated! =D
-I would say he would also be a good runner up as one of the nicest people alive.
-He joined the IRC sometimes. But not enough, I say! Chat moar =D
-He is evidently only 18 year old but he could easily pass for 25. =D
-He is a drummer like *I* am and this in itself is cool.
Astro> gforce's smiles can cure cancer in kittens
Astro> the happiness radiating from your person is enough to solve tensor calculus
<mib_4do271>everything you touch explodes in pillows of happiness
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Postby Extreme-Speed » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:52 am

Google/Yahoo bots!
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Postby datherman » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:54 am

I hadn't considered bots.... Though I fail to understand why one would want one for a forum. Besides flaming or a crap load of alts.
Or indexing for search engines perhaps?
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Postby gforce422 » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:58 am

I hadn't considered bots.... Though I fail to understand why one would want one for a forum. Besides flaming or a crap load of alts.
Or indexing for search engines perhaps?
This is probably the right answer. :P
gforce422 is awesome because:
-He made the absolute nicest comments about me in the other topic. I didn't respond to them yet, because I suck, but they are greatly appreciated! =D
-I would say he would also be a good runner up as one of the nicest people alive.
-He joined the IRC sometimes. But not enough, I say! Chat moar =D
-He is evidently only 18 year old but he could easily pass for 25. =D
-He is a drummer like *I* am and this in itself is cool.
Astro> gforce's smiles can cure cancer in kittens
Astro> the happiness radiating from your person is enough to solve tensor calculus
<mib_4do271>everything you touch explodes in pillows of happiness
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Postby Doc Sigma » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:13 pm

I thought GoogleBot showed up as... a user named GoogleBot. Maybe that's only on other boards...
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Postby Dr. Sticks » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:52 pm

yeah, some boards are coded to list "Google.com" and "Yahoo.com" and stuff like that. interestingly enough, on another board there was a member that had his username changed to Google.com :lol:

but, occasionally the guests are banned members like Fritz that still read the forums anyway
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Postby nickspoon » Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:40 pm

The majority of them are bots (googlebot, yahoo, searchme.com) along with a couple of (probably) human users.
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Postby Archaemic » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:04 pm

They only show up listed as bots on phpBB3 and some other board scripts, not on phpBB2.
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Postby Segovia » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:57 am

You know what I noticed? When I check who's online, sometimes I see that a guess is posting a message. Is this possible?
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Postby Dr. Sticks » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:14 am

it means the person hides their online status.
http://www.spingain.com/?ref=146518
Well put doog. You never posted anything offensive whatsoever
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Postby Segovia » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:59 am

No I hid my online status before and when I post it doesn't show. Plus it also says that there's nobody that is hidden.
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Postby datherman » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:34 am

It has to do with the bots again. I don't know the specifics of how they get to a "post a reply" screen, but I'm sure that's what it is.
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