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Bots are registered users??

Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:04 am
by books1
I logged off just now and it said the following:

"In total there are 3 users online :: 1 registered, 0 hidden and 2 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 36 on Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:18 pm

Registered users: Bing [Bot]
"

- Since when was a "Bot" able to be a registered user? I thought they were pests that trawled the 'Net for addresses and other info.

Re: Bots are registered users??

Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:17 am
by Sigmaz
They wander in to spider the site.

That's a core system coding thing..
I guess the authors thought it was a useful function.

Re: Bots are registered users??

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:48 pm
by books1
"Nasties" then?

Re: Bots are registered users??

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:06 pm
by Sigmaz
'Nasties'?

You've got me stumped on a cultural technicality.

Re: Bots are registered users??

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:34 pm
by books1
Pesky varmints then?

Re: Bots are registered users??

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:58 pm
by Sigmaz
haha..
Yeah I guess they are aren't they.