Invasion of the bots!!

What's Going On? Currently Active Users: 134 (23 members and 111 guests) Most users ever online was 143, Today at 10:26 AM.

 

254 now

111 in the steam room :S

 

Admin

For some reason I logged on this morning at 5.30am, this , I was suprised with the traffic, why do we have 101 guests at this time of the morning ?

 

More than likely bots from search engines cataloguing the pages.

At the moment we're quite low in the list if you search for Watford forums, both hopefully this will improve and our membership will continue to expand.

People can help by posting links on other sites.

 

'tis a quiet time on these boards at the moment (apart from the bots you speak of). Close season is always like this.

 

What are bots ?

 

Robots, also known as web robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human editor alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey.
Full details here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

 

Most users

Most users online shows an astounding 334 on Monday. I can't remember what happened on Monday to get everyone so excited. Can anyone help?

 

Ah yes. Must have been as we only have 259 active members. It was probably something to do with all that getting up the google front page business.

I thought I'd missed a big story.

 

Whose bots are we talking about?

 

bots in disguise - transformers

 

Maybe they all came in hope of a invite to the new forum area that have recently been made.

 

??

 

you need an invite to the secret garden.

 

we are being invaded again!!!!

 

first it giveth then it taketh away

 

When people talk about bots I imagine those creatures from the old Cadbury's Smash commercials. If they are invading it could be fun, they seemed to have a sense of humour.

 

which is more than can be said of many of the humans on here!!!!

 

118 Guests at This Time

What is going on ?

 

i dont think they are really there!

 

They are there but not there , this can mean only one thing ............

 

Pod people?

 

It seems to happen a lot to Birdy. Maybe it's all his multiple personalities being counted every time he's on :]]

 

Imagine the internet bill

 

Broadband is the way to go

 

Clever man/men.

Do you have to impose different parental controls for your alter-egos' ages? :]]

 

So apart from Birdy who else do you think I am ?

 

I wouldnt like to guess, maybe someone quite high up at the club because of your inside knowledge?

 

Most forums have bots. I know one where they have 2000+ guests constantly due to bots.

 

Pest Control

What's a Yahoo Slurp Spider? There seem to be several on site at the moment. Do we need to call in Pest Control?

 

who you gunna call


ghostbusters

 

I was thinking more like rentokill.

 

ghostbusters are much cheaper

 

it's a deal!

 

plus Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis seem like cool dudes!