The Hidden Glasgow Forums

Just a wee thought. I notice from the front page ...

Registered users: Fossil, Gigabot [Bot], Google [Bot], Ronnie, Shardonnay, tobester, UG, Yahoo [Bot]

... that there are four humans, three robots and a tobester browsing the forums at this precise moment. Is this some kind of record?

..and there's a couple more regular bots (Ask Jeeves, etc) that were having their tea at the time.

I remember them showing up last time Shazza did an upgrade, but they disappeared after a few days, so I presume there's a setting somewhere.

Ronnie wrote:Just a wee thought. I notice from the front page ...

Registered users: Fossil, Gigabot [Bot], Google [Bot], Ronnie, Shardonnay, tobester, UG, Yahoo [Bot]

... that there are four humans, three robots and a tobester browsing the forums at this precise moment. Is this some kind of record?

Watch out theres a tobester about...and ye'd better have a valid ticket.

There was also a ninjabot in that lot...

There's an adbot named marco posting away merrily this morning.

Are these automated posts then? I thought they were just posted by some salesman chancing his arm on any forums he could find. Either way I can't imagine they get much of a response from this sort of advertising.

I'm presuming it's a bot .. the ads are from South Africa, what are the chances of a Springbok stumbling on our little arena?

The apple ads appear on here and other forums quite often, seen it a few times on bloodbus (bus forum!!) just some sad loser with no life wasting his time. Never been kissed by a girl and only ever slept with his mum

the bots listed are just indexing forum content for search engine - so not harmful other than eating our bandwdth

you are right they can be hidden, just need to find the setting that was changed...

apple ads canned.

think it might have been a code hack to hide the bots... cant immediately see a handy hiding setting.

(I kinda like seeing the bots )