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The Bots
Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 03:06
by Magick
Umm are the bots suppose to be there? If not we should get them off. As i said in my last post i havent been on in a while but i cant think of any uses for them.
Re: The Bots
Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 03:42
by Jaxad0127
Botting is against the rules, but it's hard to catch.
Re: The Bots
Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 08:39
by Platyna
They are not that hard to catch. And some of them were cleaned up yesterday.
Regards.
Re: The Bots
Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 12:12
by Magick
I was not talking about the one's in game, i ment the ones on the forums. Obviously botting in game is illegal

Re: The Bots
Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 12:22
by Crush
You mean users like "Google [Bot]" or "Yahoo [Bot]" which appear in the list of currently online users from time to time?
These bots are very useful because they help search engines to index the forum and thus improve our page ranking and the relevance of the pages we link to on the forum. Also note that they don't really have accounts. When the forum identifies an unregistred user as a bot from a popular search engine by its user agent string it just shows this information in the online users list.
Re: The Bots
Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 14:13
by Platyna
Also I am quite frequently connecting automoderator to forums. ;)
Regards.