Who are these robots?

[schizo]

Just out of curiosity, who are behind these robots? They don't look like the typical scraping robots like Google. Moreover, why are there so many of them?

 

[schizo]

Why are there more bots than members?

 

[schizo]

5 minutes later, it goes up to 215. Just what is their reason for being here in the first place?!

 

[schizo]

@Baron Surely you know the answer to this. C'mon, fess up.

 

[Baron]

They are all search bots. Please don't think that a search engine like Google is deploying one bot to search this site. Each search engine has many of them constantly hitting us from a variety of IP addresses, and I'm talking about Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, and many others.

 

[schizo]

They are all search bots. Please don't think that a search engine like Google is deploying one bot to search this site. Each search engine has many of them constantly hitting us from a variety of IP addresses, and I'm talking about Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, and many others.

Oh, c'mon, 294 bots? And that screenie was captured at night too, long after the market was closed.

 

[Baron]

I don't know what else to say. Site traffic has doubled since the virus outbreak and the bots love us.

 

[Laissez Faire]

This is typical for every forum as far as I know.

 

[wrbtrader]

This is typical for every forum as far as I know.

I heard some forums are turning away people if not wearing a medical mask / medical gloves.



wrbtrader

 

[virtusa]

I heard some forums are turning away people if not wearing a medical mask / medical gloves.



wrbtrader

Only exception is made for people who have a certificate that they were injected with a disinfecting product from Lysol or Dettol.