Neighborhood Watch! The bots have arrived!

[HasiraKali]

I've already seen a few of the search engine bots/crawlers lurking about. Just thought it'd be fun to have a thread for them. :lol:

I'm on a sugar high right now and can't sleep... forgive me.

Right now, a Googlebot is checking Vidan out. Rarr rarr.

[Sadiki]

To my understanding Googlebot is just good thing. Without it we would not show up on Google. Most bots are good and harmless, used to collect information for certain places like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc... ;)

Hopefully we wont be getting spam bots thought even thought those should be staying away. Due to security in registering.

[HasiraKali]

Oh I know. :) The ones to worry about are the ones that like to post porn links and things like that. Though there was that one that was posting on topic text and links, but it was clearly a bot. :lol:

[Sadiki]

That there was. But I don't think at that time we had picture verification. Yes some bots can by pass that, but besides that we have the Email confirmation now. AND if that fails we do have 5 Admins which 3 rather active ones and plenty of mods to stop them... so go ahead hacks.. bring it on! :roar:

[Aurelian]

The complexity and (artificial) intelligence of bots these days is amazing. Sometimes, it is only the poor grammar that gives them away.

[Guntur]

ooohhhh hawt hawt pixture uf meehhhh, cleck herree. :p

[Wide Eyed Wanderer]

ooohhhh hawt hawt pixture uf meehhhh, cleck herree. :p

:ohno:

Fendi's a bot! How did we never notice that...

:p

[Guntur]

:ohno:

Fendi's a bot! How did we never notice that...

:p

Be praise to Leet language and I am the "n00b" and the "haxx0r"! :lol: :p : :gasp: :wicked:

[HasiraKali]

:lol: I think a Fendi bot would be rather terrifying actually. No offense, Fendi. :p

[Azerane]

To my understanding Googlebot is just good thing. Without it we would not show up on Google. Most bots are good and harmless, used to collect information for certain places like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc... ;)

Hopefully we wont be getting spam bots thought even thought those should be staying away. Due to security in registering.

Speaking of which (showing up on google), is there a way we can increase our potential for that? I did a search for 'lion king forum' and 'lion king website' the other day, and I got through 7 pages of links before I gave up on Lea. When you search for 'lion king forum' the first result is the mylionking forum. We need Lea to be on that first page if we ever expect to get new members from google searches...

[HasiraKali]

Now that we have control of the whole thing, that shouldn't be a problem. :)

[Guntur]

:lol: I think a Fendi bot would be rather terrifying actually. No offense, Fendi. :p

:lol:

Manda, you don't want to see a "n00b" and a "haxx0r" in one personality. :lol:

Actually it's a playwords for Alpha and Omega

[Nuduli]

Just a heads up, I think the last two new members with their unusual spam looking usernames may be bots/spammers. Lando something and Pseur.. whatever.

[nathalie]

That there was. But I don't think at that time we had picture verification. Yes some bots can by pass that, but besides that we have the Email confirmation now. AND if that fails we do have 5 Admins which 3 rather active ones and plenty of mods to stop them... so go ahead hacks.. bring it on! :roar:

Europe is at your service :th_ayecapn:

:lol:

[Sadiki]

Just a heads up, I think the last two new members with their unusual spam looking usernames may be bots/spammers. Lando something and Pseur.. whatever.

Just checked these accounts Emails and IP addresses and those came up as spam accounts. Not really harmful ones but none the less. Did ban all the account and block the Email and the IP. Also the newest member checked out as spam account so I guess we have been spotted by various bots... Well keep on the good work.

Added: found another fake account from the list, now all should be taken care of thought.

[Shadow]

OMG where being watched! 0.o

[Aurelian]

Wow, so bots are actually signing up for e-mail accounts now? They are getting scary. Soon they will take over the internet and enslave us all.

[Lion King Stu]

Wow, so bots are actually signing up for e-mail accounts now? They are getting scary. Soon they will take over the internet and enslave us all.

Skynet anyone? :lol:
Terminator got it all wrong :D

[Sadiki]

Where is Mr.Governator when we need him...

Well yet another bot bytes the dust... bytes you get it? because it's da internet...... ok ok.. I know I'm lame. -5 internets for me.

[Guntur]

Are you sure it's T-1000? :wicked: :bleen:

[Sadiki]

I replaced the registering image verification with a question, seems like it's working so far.

[Nuduli]

Yep, sure looks like it is! I haven't had to report any for a day or so. :D

[Wide Eyed Wanderer]

I still think we should have "What colour are Nala's eyes?" as the registration question...

:evilgrin:

[Guntur]

I still think we should have "What colour are Nala's eyes?" as the registration question...

:evilgrin:

Or, Did Mufasa died on the first film? :p

[King Simba]

I still think we should have "What colour are Nala's eyes?" as the registration question...

:evilgrin:
Ah, yes... that would be a tricky one. :bleen: (Why is this smiley called "bleen"? :uhno: :lol:)

[Sadiki]

I wanted to put up a question that any fan can answer and that doesn't require any knowledge that comes from the fan base. After all the release of blu-ray will probably start the third generation of fans and it's only fair for everyone to be able to join. So far a simple question has kept bots at bay which is the only reason for the question really.

To be honest on old lea I was annoyed by the question at search as I have never really read any of the 6 books, I did read a little bit of one of them, but didn't even finish that. And I felt answering Ahadi for a question was not really fair for people who just join the fan hood or are from countries that don't even have the books available at all and who don't really care about debating about background of the characters.

[Wide Eyed Wanderer]

Don't worry, I wasn't seriously suggesting Nala's eyes! :lol:

People still argue about it to this day...