Random weird funny thingy

[Aniki]

Go to Gamers Forum :: PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Fighting, FPS, Video Games

Now scrool down till the page/window where it says: 'What's going on?'

Look right below it. See the number of guests! Then compare them to the active users xD

Eheh don't be shy! Join!

Aparently is like this the whole time, but when I was navigating yesterday at night, I saw over 100 guest online. I thought that was a lot, but at the afternoon, I saw millions of guests!

ZOMG! xD

[Charlotte]

lol I didn't realize that. XD

[Diligence109]

most of those "guests" are just bots for various search engines or other services that are indexing the site (I think, to the best of my knowledge.) There aren't actually that many users (if any) lurking.

[jango]

The truth that Dili is wary of stating is that they're ALL Linux .. after all, he IS the matrix ..

[Diligence109]

The truth that Dili is wary of stating is that they're ALL Linux .. after all, he IS the matrix ..

WHAT ARE YOU DOING
NO ONE MUST KNOW

[jango]

I have failed again .. no wonder he looks sad ..

[LemonRising]

well there are some lurkers (some of them end up joining, some of them)
but yeah, mostly bots n stuff lol


it is still funny to see.
WE'RE JUST A SHOW FOR HUNDREDS TO WATCH

[LiNuX]

They aren't bots...very small amount of them are bots. We have maybe 20-25 search engine bots.

Years ago, yahoo used to have thousands of bots and back then we could have up to 800 yahoo bots on the site but since then, they've changed it. They don't have more than a few bots on a site at a time.

But most of those guests are either actual people or regular bots surfing through the forum or something or getting blocked by our registration security, etc..

[LemonRising]

ORLY? That's pretty cool then : D

[HamadaLFC8]

By the way, this may seem like a dumb question but I'm not a computer pro...

What the heck do bots do?