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10 May 2014, 8:11 pm
25 May 2014, 7:48 am
It's tough to say if they're bots or not, you get a lot of lurkers. A lot of people just want to read about asperger's, weather it's psychologists wanting to learn about how we interact, authors wanting material for their works, autistics who just like to lurk to learn social skills, or people who just read and didn't care to respond.
Having said that, advertising is a huge industry with incredible market value, don't be surprised if there are bots. 
25 May 2014, 7:51 am
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26 May 2014, 12:03 am
26 May 2014, 7:41 am
ImeldaJace wrote:
Is there anyway to block that from happening or something to help save the site? How do other forums manage it? Are they just not stressed by the load?
It's certainly possible to block them on the site's webserver but the standard method of doing this seems to be more concerned with the bot's source, not the quantity - so blocking (say) the IP address will probably have too great an effect on what they do (which in general, is a good thing and ensures that articles and WP are easily found).I'd guess that many sites would have much less of a problem with... well, practically everything, because their forum software isn't so ancient.
wozeree wrote:
Google picks posts up posts from websites really fast, where it used to take them days or weeks. I'm not surprised at that number of bots.
Yes, it's ridiculously fast.
I thought the huge number of connections from Microsoft simply reflected the poor quality of their search engines, but then I tend to have a dim view of the activities in Redmond.
26 May 2014, 11:04 am
Cornflake wrote:
I thought the huge number of connections from Microsoft simply reflected the poor quality of their search engines, but then I tend to have a dim view of the activities in Redmond.
This phrase is already on google
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26 May 2014, 2:56 pm
26 May 2014, 5:34 pm
Cornflake wrote:
ImeldaJace wrote:
Is there anyway to block that from happening or something to help save the site? How do other forums manage it? Are they just not stressed by the load?
It's certainly possible to block them on the site's webserver but the standard method of doing this seems to be more concerned with the bot's source, not the quantity - so blocking (say) the IP address will probably have too great an effect on what they do (which in general, is a good thing and ensures that articles and WP are easily found).I'd guess that many sites would have much less of a problem with... well, practically everything, because their forum software isn't so ancient.
wozeree wrote:
Google picks posts up posts from websites really fast, where it used to take them days or weeks. I'm not surprised at that number of bots.
Yes, it's ridiculously fast.I thought the huge number of connections from Microsoft simply reflected the poor quality of their search engines, but then I tend to have a dim view of the activities in Redmond.
Notice how I avoided even mentioning the MS bots?
I just spent half the day trying to set up a new Windows 8 computer. Set up you say, don't you just turn it on and go? Haha. It's like if you computer was a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs - all over the place and tangled up and - no that's not even a good analogy because at least you know what to do with spaghetti and meatballs. Their mindset when they created this is beyond incomprehensible.
I love Apple, but they are not without their own issues - but nothing like this.
Ok, my vent is over! (It was half the day really, I had a reason)~
Plus I'm still trying to get all the updates to download. 
26 May 2014, 5:54 pm
wozeree wrote:
Their mindset when they created this is beyond incomprehensible.
Often spoken of Microsoft products, I believe... 
26 May 2014, 9:47 pm
Cornflake wrote:
wozeree wrote:
Their mindset when they created this is beyond incomprehensible.
Often spoken of Microsoft products, I believe... I am now fully convinced that Bill Gates uses Apples. Because if he ever used Windows 8, he'd be like - this is stupid, I can't spend my life dealing with the problems created by this program, off with it's head! I mean if you think about it, a buggy program isn't less buggy because the guy using it runs the company or is super rich. Yep, he's an Apple man for sure.
