Oh noes! Bots have invaded Cemetech!
Prepare for evasive action!
Prepare for evasive action!
Sting::Ray wrote:
Although to a much lesser degree, OTBP is being flooded as well. 
It couldn't have been more than seven bots, because that's your simultaneous users record... 
It is users active over the past 5 minutes... So couldn't it just be the same bot, and not a bot army?
Kllrnohj wrote:
It is users active over the past 5 minutes... So couldn't it just be the same bot, and not a bot army?
no, it couldn't, because of how sessions and bot tracking work in phpBB, it was likely yahoo spawning multiple instances of its crawler to cover a site faster.
Kllrnohj wrote:
It is users active over the past 5 minutes... So couldn't it just be the same bot, and not a bot army?
No - each had a unique IP, otherwise the sessions would have been updated to deal with one bot as it skipped from page to page. KermMartian wrote:
It couldn't have been more than seven bots, because that's your simultaneous users record...
They don't all go online at the same time; but calc84maniac has axed at least 50 bots, I'd say.
Why would you be against spiders crawing your site? Do you have a personal vendetta against search engines?
Kllrnohj wrote:
Why would you be against spiders crawing your site? Do you have a personal vendetta against search engines?
Not to mention your site won't show up in Google and Yahoo. 
calc84maniac wrote:
I was speaking of bots that signed up... 
Way to switch from search engine crawlers to spam bots without telling the rest of us. We can't read your mind, you know.
Around 700 bots got killed from Cemetech in the space of about 3 months, and since it's been over 5 months since I installed the anti-spam measures, I'd assume we've repelled nearly a thousand more. 
Yahoo! Slurp has been a bit more chill here lately. I guess we need to pick up the pace to attract it back.
I don't know if this would work here, but The Art of Problem Solving website (a math forum), which I use frequently almost never has problems with bots of any type. For the search engine bots, they have some type of system that forces the bots to register as bots and, I assume, only allows one of each name. Would that work here? Or am I just being a complete n00b with regards to the issue?
As to the downside of search engine bots, they use up bandwidth, which is bad.
As to the downside of search engine bots, they use up bandwidth, which is bad.
b-flat wrote:
I don't know if this would work here, but The Art of Problem Solving website (a math forum), which I use frequently almost never has problems with bots of any type. For the search engine bots, they have some type of system that forces the bots to register as bots and, I assume, only allows one of each name. Would that work here? Or am I just being a complete n00b with regards to the issue?
As to the downside of search engine bots, they use up bandwidth, which is bad.
As to the downside of search engine bots, they use up bandwidth, which is bad.
Not much bandwidth though, they tend to not spider pictures
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