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pmwww | Re: BOTs Online (24th Dec 09 at 12:37am UTC) | | Bots see as much guests do. So I doubt they can see Member only area's. Unless you have the boards open to categories. and only staff members are allowed to see the Admin Panel.
But I think that would be good to show the names of Bots like on phpBB, Google[Bot]. | |
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pmwww | Re: BOTs Online (24th Dec 09 at 4:34am UTC) | | I don't think that's true. I see the same thing, but as a guest you can't access those area's at all. | |
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pmwww | Re: BOTs Online (24th Dec 09 at 5:29am UTC) | | Yeah, but they are considered Guests. if you put your forum to member only or in Maintenance mode, guests (including Google) can only see the members only and MM part. | |
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pmvForum | Re: BOTs Online (24th Dec 09 at 6:12am UTC) | | If you go to the page that you would normally go to to see PMs as a guest, it'd show you an error but still register you as viewing that area. That's where the confusion lies.
There's no chance that a bot can see what a member can see, so don't worry. | |
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: BOTs Online (24th Dec 09 at 9:36am UTC) | | I have been considering this for a while. At least to identify the main bots such as Google Bot, Google Adsense, Bing etc.
And as said, there is no way bots can see member only areas. Those who say they're viewing PMs or admin areas are most likely ad-crawlers (trying to determine the best ads to display). They just see either an error message or a login form. | |
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: BOTs Online (11th Jan 10 at 12:33pm UTC) | | This is now being tried out on this support forum to see how well it works | |
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pmwww | Re: BOTs Online (11th Jan 10 at 8:59pm UTC) | | I see the Yahoo[Bot] in the info center. Looks good to me! | |
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