Could someone please explain this to me?

**SilverWook** · **SilverWook** 2015-06-13, 02:23 PM Power user

Because I don't think those other names belong to members!

**jerryshadoe** · **jerryshadoe** 2015-06-13, 02:35 PM Project Maker

The others are search engine "bots," but what puzzles me is the math that doesn't add up there Tongue

**spoRv** · **spoRv** 2015-06-13, 03:05 PM Project maker _,,,^..^,,,_

(2015-06-13, 02:35 PM)jerryshadoe Wrote: The others are search engine "bots," but what puzzles me is the math that doesn't add up there

Because you may have several "guests" with different IPs, but they show up only as "guest"

**jerryshadoe** · **jerryshadoe** 2015-06-13, 03:11 PM Project Maker

Ok, that makes sense. It was just funny to look at that and think...

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**SilverWook** · **SilverWook** 2015-06-13, 11:33 PM Power user

Okay, but what are search engine bots doing here? I would think they were blocked? I didn't even know what the third one was until I looked it up.

**spoRv** · **spoRv** 2015-06-14, 03:59 AM Project maker _,,,^..^,,,_

I have not blocked them, to get some traffic... have I made a bad move? What you all guys think?

~~HDVinnie~~ · ~~HDVinnie~~ 2015-06-14, 04:02 AM Banned

we blocked all but google....google bot pops up here and there

**jerryshadoe** · **jerryshadoe** 2015-06-14, 07:59 AM Project Maker

Well, on the one hand it does bring more traffic but, on the other hand, it bring more spammers "our" way too.

Feallan

(2015-06-14, 03:59 AM)spoRv Wrote: I have not blocked them, to get some traffic... have I made a bad move? What you all guys think?

I don't think it makes a difference. Search bots always find a way.

**spoRv** · **spoRv** 2015-06-14, 02:59 PM Project maker _,,,^..^,,,_

Thanks to Feallan, now we have a quite good anti-spam filter - that, of course, will not be perfect, but will prevent a LOT of spammers to sign up... and, we can't live without being indexed by Baidu and Yandex! Wink