BOTS on the site?????????

Jim · Apr 18, 2008

That is normal, they search the site and index the pages. That way when people do searches in serach engines they can find info.

Waterwings · Apr 18, 2008

It looks like a Bot is counted as a registered user in the Who's Online status, lol

Jim · Apr 18, 2008

Waterwings said:
It looks like a Bot is counted as a registered user in the Who's Online status, lol

Yup! If it says bot..It is a harmless info gathering robot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots

russo · Apr 19, 2008

the new version shows spiders/bots, they can be made invisible if they freak people out too much

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