Who are these robots?

Discussion in 'Feedback' started by schizo, Apr 28, 2020.

  1. schizo

    schizo

    Just out of curiosity, who are behind these robots? They don't look like the typical scraping robots like Google. Moreover, why are there so many of them?


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    #1     Apr 28, 2020
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  2. schizo

    schizo

    Why are there more bots than members?

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    #2     Apr 30, 2020
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  3. schizo

    schizo

    5 minutes later, it goes up to 215. Just what is their reason for being here in the first place?!

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    #3     Apr 30, 2020
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  4. schizo

    schizo

    @Baron Surely you know the answer to this. C'mon, fess up.
     
    #4     Apr 30, 2020
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  5. Baron

    Baron ET Founder

    They are all search bots. Please don't think that a search engine like Google is deploying one bot to search this site. Each search engine has many of them constantly hitting us from a variety of IP addresses, and I'm talking about Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, and many others.
     
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    #5     Apr 30, 2020
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  6. schizo

    schizo

    Oh, c'mon, 294 bots? And that screenie was captured at night too, long after the market was closed.
     
    #6     Apr 30, 2020
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  7. Baron

    Baron ET Founder

    I don't know what else to say. Site traffic has doubled since the virus outbreak and the bots love us. :thumbsup::D
     
    #7     Apr 30, 2020
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  8. Laissez Faire

    Laissez Faire

    This is typical for every forum as far as I know.
     
    #8     May 2, 2020
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  9. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    I heard some forums are turning away people if not wearing a medical mask / medical gloves.

    :D

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    #9     May 2, 2020
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  10. virtusa

    virtusa

    Only exception is made for people who have a certificate that they were injected with a disinfecting product from Lysol or Dettol.
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    #10     May 2, 2020
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