500 users online?!
- Carpet_pissr
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500 users online?!
Does this seem right to you guys?
“In total there are 514 users online”
This is from stats at bottom of page. Seems like…a lot, no?
“In total there are 514 users online”
This is from stats at bottom of page. Seems like…a lot, no?
- LawBeefaroni
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Re: 500 users online?!
Those "guests" are mostly search bots, no?521 users online :: 9 registered, 3 hidden and 509 guests
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- gilraen
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Re: 500 users online?!
We were up to 576 "guests" a minute ago. I'm sure they are search bots but I've never seen that many. Is AI taking over already? ![Ninjas Rock! :ninja:](./images/smilies/ninja.gif)
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- Smoove_B
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Re: 500 users online?!
Wouldn't surprise me if "X" now has bots indexing the sites that allow embedding so he can charge them a fee.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
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Re: 500 users online?!
610 right now with 599 guests.
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Re: 500 users online?!
I'd expect it's some machine learning model indexing most forums containing long-form prose.
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Re: 500 users online?!
If he's right, this site is likely a gold mine. Who says anachronistic things don't' have value!
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- Kraken
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Re: 500 users online?!
I have that effect on people...and bots, too, it seems.Users browsing this forum: Kraken and 0 guests
- FishPants
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Re: 500 users online?!
Yeah… that’s unusual. I’m not sure wtf that’s about, I’ll try and look in logs to see, being all guests they are likely bots… doing what though..
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Re: 500 users online?!
So you're saying that my long-winded walls of text are making us popular?
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Re: 500 users online?!
I'm running Facebook Container. I can't imagine it threw 500 bots off my scent, but there you go.
- ImLawBoy
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Re: 500 users online?!
It's just my fan base keeping tabs on my latest activities.
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Re: 500 users online?!
I was going to say it was because of me but so many of you beat me to the punch I guess it isn't. ![Think :think:](./images/smilies/eusa/think.gif)
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Re: 500 users online?!
And 500+ spies!Kraken wrote:Users browsing this forum: Kraken and 1 guest
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- FishPants
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Re: 500 users online?!
Couldn't sleep so was up early this morning - noticed this was over 500 users again so I've started poking around.. Found a large number of IP addresses from AWS Singapore connecting, blocked that range and it dropped to 380 users. I'm going to keep digging and blocking, not sure what these bots are up to.
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- FishPants
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Re: 500 users online?!
And now it dropped to 161 guests.. Interesting, that's a lot of AWS singapore based bots.
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- FishPants
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Re: 500 users online?!
A few more blocks of networks in AWS Dublin, and some "crawlers" registered domain (that ties back to an SEO marketing company not a search engine) and we are down to 23 users. That was a lot of scraping going on! Thanks for bringing it up to my attention.
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- Carpet_pissr
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Re: 500 users online?!
No problem! Thanks for bouncing the enemy spy bots!
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Re: 500 users online?!
Sounds just like something an enemy spy bot would say.
I think you should bounce him fellow humans.
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- Carpet_pissr
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Re: 500 users online?!
Only bots say “fellow humans”.
It is known.
It is known.
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Re: 500 users online?!
Or humans pretending to be bots!
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