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mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:28 pm
by Druska
the bots, it's getting annoying
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:35 pm
by Gibsum 41
I know! It's fucking annoying! Where do they all come from?
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:44 pm
by Jeremy Kill
I don't know, but they keep reviving topics.
Well, that's my useless contribution to this topic.

Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:51 pm
by Madjid
I thought Bots disappear when you buy the domain !
My fail free forum has like 3 bots, but i got them under control !
Anyway, this is how you get rid of the "Google Adsence Bot":
Run the following query direct on the database (can be done via an application like phpMyAdmin)
Code: Select all
UPDATE phpbb_users SET user_allow_viewonline = '0' WHERE group_id = '6';
NOTE:
Before you run this query you'll have to do two things:
1. Change phpbb_ to your table prefix you can find this in the config.php file.
2. In: group_id = '6' you'll have to change the '6' in the group id of the bots group.
(if you are running a vanilla installation this is group 6
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:26 pm
by tomhoppus
bots like Google and Yahoo! aren't bad. They don't post, if I'm thinking correctly. These 'bots' actually register as members, and then post
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:24 pm
by Nic
We installed something to solve this problem quite a long time ago and they have never been an issue. But lately, they have been getting through. I don't know how.
We will take a look at this.
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:27 pm
by Druska
thanks nic
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:51 pm
by xmarryxx
excuss me for being noobish but what the hell is a bot?
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:57 pm
by Druska
whenever you read a post saying buy Wow gold thats a bot, mainly they post links to viruses
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:00 pm
by I'm A Cunt [*banned*]
bots are dumb
bots are gay
Nic rules
Jordan sucks
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:02 pm
by Jeremy Kill
Yeah, there seems to be more bots about lately... Must be the new song, haha.
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:44 pm
by Childish Gambino
Seriously, I'm getting tired of deleting three or four of them a day

Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:56 pm
by LTS
I'm getting tired of reporting them all the time!
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:08 am
by xmarryxx
this is really off topic but, Jeremy your sig is amazing. where did you find that picture?
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:11 am
by Dylan
wasn't there some kind of mod installed that made it so you had to have a certain number of posts before you could post links to other sites?
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:25 am
by Jake
i'm looking for that mod. as for Bots like googlebot and yahoo, they are perfectly fine, they just crawl the web reading 'meta' tags within the php/html so that the search engines know what keywords should fish up a website.
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:18 am
by Jeremy Kill
xmarryxx wrote:this is really off topic but, Jeremy your sig is amazing. where did you find that picture?
Courtesy of the TNS Gallery!
http://theresnosolution.com/gallery/
Re: mods do something with..
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:37 am
by Bobbyjames
i am etting bored of having to delete 10 or 20 bot posts a day, i dont have the power to delete the actual bots though, i dont think.