Can somebody brief me briefly on the way this board functions? Frequently when I check in here, the first thing I do is look down at the bottom to see who else is here. Nearly always a couple of bots are listed, sometimes more than two.
What are they doing?
snailgate.
Got Bots?
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Burning Petard
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oldr_n_wsr
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Re: Got Bots?
Spying on you. I noticed they only show up when you are logged in. 
Re: Got Bots?
Google Bot, (and his little brother Bing Bot) are scanning the website for new content and activity to determine how to rank the site and it's content with their algorithms for search purposes...(they do this constantly with all the sites on the web)What are they doing?
There are other lesser known search engines who just show up as "bot" without their name, that are doing the same thing...
And then of course there are those bots that are scanning everything as a prelude to an alien invasion, (so they know which people to round up and eat first, and how to find them) but I really don't care to go into that...
Re: Got Bots?
Don't forget the NSA bots . . .
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: Got Bots?
They are counting Jims misuse of apostrophe's
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: Got Bots?
And, overuse of, comma's.MajGenl.Meade wrote:They are counting Jims misuse of apostrophe's
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: Got Bots?
Oh I'm not one of those. I'm only piling on today because I can.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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datsunaholic
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Re: Got Bots?
Deny, deny. That won't save you when they come to get you in your sleep.Guinevere wrote:Oh I'm not one of those. I'm only piling on today because I can.
Death is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.