the popularity increase of guests on vr

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Jewbacca

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15th Dec 2006 at 12:35 am

Jewbacca -

 
why are there so many guests on vr nowadays? i remember a time that 3 or 4 was rare. and then it was likely to be lazy members not logging in.

and 40+ search engines? pretty impressive.

perhaps it is due to the update, we now look more professional and actually have a look round rather than leaving immediately?

Edited by Jewbacca Dec 2006
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Albi The Racist Dragon

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15th Dec 2006 at 1:44 am

 
It's all search engine bots.
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Jewbacca

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15th Dec 2006 at 1:47 am

Jewbacca -

 
what is the purpose of those bots? are they looking for contact details and such?
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Gary

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15th Dec 2006 at 1:52 am

Gary - I is not evil.

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Quote: Appletini
what is the purpose of those bots? are they looking for contact details and such?

They're just indexing posts, so people can make fun links like this.

It could just be the one guest who's always online and has no account, but uses some kind of random proxy switching service to change his IP address every ten seconds for the sake of anonymity. Maybe.
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Albert Johanneson

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15th Dec 2006 at 9:55 pm

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We get between 2 and 8 bots signing up to the Foo Fighters board per day and posting spam about purchasing discount pharmaceuticals, p*rn and links to other places.
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