We Got Robots?

[Chesterton]

I recently noticed something I never had before. On the main Forums page, there's a box showing Members Online Now. It includes the numbers. Right now it says - Total: 738 (members: 123, guests: 493, robots: 122).

122 Robots? Should I be scared? The only one I ever knew of was ChrisBot, and I haven't heard from him in ages. What does this mean? Is it something that helps the site function or something?

 

[pgp_protector]

Some might be search robots that are crawling the site.
Example, Google crawls the site using a bot, same with Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, ect. Each unique search engine that indexes this site would send its own bot.

 

[pgp_protector]

Some of the bots it looks like this software watches.
Known Bots

 

[Chesterton]

Some might be search robots that are crawling the site.
Example, Google crawls the site using a bot, same with Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, ect. Each unique search engine that indexes this site would send its own bot.

I thought those were referred to as "spiders".

 

[Tolworth John]

122 Robots? Should I be scared

Why should you be scared of a robot or a number of robots?

 

[pgp_protector]

I thought those were referred to as "spiders".

6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
Same thing, different name.

 

[Chesterton]

Why should you be scared of a robot or a number of robots?

I was bullied by robots in school.

 

[Michie]

There have always been bots perusing the place.