Robot visitors

[dl242gt]

Under my members tab. If I look at the visitors. It shows 17 Robot visitors as well as several board members. Is that something I can delete or is that something you guys manage? Thank you.

 

[propav8r]

It's just search engines doing their indexing thing.

 

[dl242gt]

Ok Thank you. You were one of the visitors. lol. But you were not a bot.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Under my members tab. If I look at the visitors. It shows 17 Robot visitors as well as several board members.

Only 17? When I clicked on it just now, there was 8 pages, a total of 101 Robot entries.
Of course, most of those were duplicates, looking at different posts.

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Trendiction
Yandex

 

[boostdemon]

you can click on just members if thats what you're interested in

 

[dl242gt]

I guess that is going to be a cleanup task for Dana. Delete all visitor bots. You have to say that with your electronic computer voice.

 

[boostdemon]

they're just search engines and data collectors... nothing to be concerned with.

 

[James M]

Semi related what about profiles created for businesses that have little to do with RWD Volvo? Unless they are here to offer cheap reman M41s it seems like the start of spam.

 

[boostdemon]

i defer all spam related process and procedure to our resident expert, @buzz

 

[James M]

So that's what he does here

 

[JohnMc]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

 

[buzz]

So that's what he does here

Yes, yes it is.

For the record, Tbricks had a grand total of 87 spam posts in 2022.

I'm waiting to see what the anti-spam program does for me now that things seemingly are much more automatic than what they were before. Even though a potential spam profile is visible in the member section I don't believe they'll be able to post as long as they have been flagged here on the back end. I'm guessing we'll find out sooner rather than later how its all working. On the other forum mods handled everything manually.

 

[boostdemon]

i'm all about making your unpaid job as easy as possible lol

 

[buzz]

i'm all about making your unpaid job as easy as possible lol

 

[Ursan]

they're just search engines and data collectors... nothing to be concerned with.

 

[mikep]

Only 17? When I clicked on it just now, there was 8 pages, a total of 101 Robot entries.
Of course, most of those were duplicates, looking at different posts.

Ahrefs
Applebot
Bing
Brandwatch
Facebook
Google
Moz Dotbot
Petal Search
SEMrush
Trendiction
Yandex

It's just the matrix, doing matrix stuff.

 

[James M]

It's just the matrix, doing matrix stuff.

So sucking up water because of a hotboi cold air intake?

 

[spock345]

Semi related what about profiles created for businesses that have little to do with RWD Volvo? Unless they are here to offer cheap reman M41s it seems like the start of spam.

Cheap reman M41s is a bit of an oxymoron.

 

[mikep]

So sucking up water because of a hotboi cold air intake?

I did NOT see that coming.

 

[James M]

We have robot visitors but these are the bad kinds.

Is there still a security question when signing up? Is there a limit that can be imposed on posts/new threads when first signings up? Obviously a thread or two is acceptable to introduce oneself and ask some questions about their broken car, but 12 threads in the events section seems like it could be avoided...