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      Back by Unpopular Demand NeAvO's Avatar
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      That there are all these new accounts like msn.com or yahoo.com. I'm not being horrible to these people but whats with this new style of account names?
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      You're just jealous that I'm more of a man than you could ever be, sweetie pie.
      Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

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      They&#39;re not usernames, it&#39;s something to do with advertising..
      Lord of the Rings quotes:

      "Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." - Gandalf to Saruman, The Two Towers

      "Men of Gondor and Rohan, my brothers&#33; I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails... when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship... but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when all hope comes crashing down, but it is NOT this day&#33; This day, we fight&#33; For all that you hold dear, stand, Men of the West&#33; - Aragorn

      "Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall." - Glorfindel

      "in Rivendell there live still some of his chief foes: the Elven-wise, lords of the Eldar from beyond the furthest seas. They do not fear the Ringwraiths, for those who have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and the Unseen they have great power." - Gandalf

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      This is how Seeker explained it:

      They are bots, but are bots of the good kind.

      These are all search engines crawling over our website and categorizing our posts.

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      Oh well thanks for clearing that up.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Vex Kitten
      You're just jealous that I'm more of a man than you could ever be, sweetie pie.
      Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Burns View Post
      This is how Seeker explained it:

      They are bots, but are bots of the good kind.

      These are all search engines crawling over our website and categorizing our posts.
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      so it seeams that they are nice bots but its in there plans to take over the world

      you can't do that on the internet!.... wait yes you can do it again!

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      Heh. They&#39;re spiders, yeah. They&#39;re run by their respective companies (i.e. msn.com is ran by MSN, yahoo.com is ran by Yahoo) and go through each page linked to add to their search index/database so that when you later go to their search engines (google.com; yahoo.com whatever) and type in search terms found on the page...you&#39;ll get linked to the pages spidered. That is the world&#39;s longest paragraph.

      In short they&#39;re not real accounts and you would notice that they don&#39;t have profiles or links to click on either.

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      I&#39;m confused as to why they show up at all, rather than just being "guests."

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      Quote Originally Posted by DuB View Post
      I&#39;m confused as to why they show up at all, rather than just being "guests."
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      I&#39;m guessing it&#39;s a security issue. You don&#39;t want all types of bots to get access to the site (spambots are evil), so bots need to be approved with an account of sorts to get access.

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      Quote Originally Posted by DuB View Post
      I&#39;m confused as to why they show up at all, rather than just being "guests."
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      if they did not show up would we be having this conversation?

      no


      so they have 3 purposes
      1 to aid in searching
      2 take over the world
      3 invoke conversations why they exist
      you can't do that on the internet!.... wait yes you can do it again!

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      I haven&#39;t seen any of them , could you post an example?
      Random Quote: "You can only make things so fool-proof. Eventually, you have to eliminate the fools." -???

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      Look at the area where it shows users online and you should see yahoo.com without being under lined.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Vex Kitten
      You're just jealous that I'm more of a man than you could ever be, sweetie pie.
      Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

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      yep, they are search engine spiders
      without them, there would be no entries for this site in google, etc.

      they do not have user accounts here
      they are guests - so they can only index what guests are allowed to view
      however, the site knows when they are indexing stuff (special entries in the user-agent header)

      by and large they&#39;re nothing to worry about

      (except the msnbot, that&#39;s so inefficient it sits on your site for hours on end dutifully indexing and re-indexing all popular topics that change often, sapping up bandwidth and seemingly never leaving, but hey, that&#39;s just life.....)
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