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sam
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Joined: 19 Jun 2010
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Location: Far Far Away..
 Post Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:44 am  Post subject: guest ?
every time i go on the forum i see like 20-30 people as a guest i just wonder why dont they sign up and play the game and make the forum active instead of being a guest ,hmmmm...
Mithoz
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Joined: 09 Mar 2010
Posts: 2429
Location: Down under
 Post Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:56 am  
these guests dont exist
LawrenceA
Administrator


Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 1135
Location: New Zealand
 Post Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:44 am  
Greetings and welcome to warfare incorporated!
If you are not registered yet please do so and make a post here!

I bet all the randoms come from like google searches cuz these forums could be the new yahoo answers with all the stuff we got on here.
N@TE
Chief Administrator Emeritus


Joined: 06 Dec 2009
Posts: 985
Location: Colorado
 Post Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:59 pm  Post subject: Advertisers
Mithoz is very close. Many of these "Guests" are just bots in reality. Some Guests are real people every once in a while, but the majority of them are simply scripts of programming code fulfilling a specified job.

Advertisers use bots in an attempt to find a forum that lacks the security to restrict unregistered users from posting. However, these scripts are occasionally constructed well enough to register. This is why a seemingly random user will create an entirely irrelevant post or create a new topic that already has been covered. They post with a few hyperlinked ads, and they are done, never to be seen or heard from again. If you see an ad, don't click on it, as that will only drive more advertisers to the forum. Please report all ads that you see. Such users are properly dealt with upon sight.

Other bots are "spiders", which are tools used by search engines to find keywords on sites. Because spiders are the chief method used by search engines to find websites, banning those "Guests" would sever all outside help cables. People would find it unusually difficult to locate the forum.

Since the bots face no real harm to the forum, and the actions required to remove them would be harmful to the forum, no action will be taken against them.
sam
Die-hard Fan


Joined: 19 Jun 2010
Posts: 982
Location: Far Far Away..
 Post Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:39 pm  Post subject: Re: Advertisers
N@TE wrote:
Mithoz is very close. Many of these "Guests" are just bots in reality. Some Guests are real people every once in a while, but the majority of them are simply scripts of programming code fulfilling a specified job.

Advertisers use bots in an attempt to find a forum that lacks the security to restrict unregistered users from posting. However, these scripts are occasionally constructed well enough to register. This is why a seemingly random user will create an entirely irrelevant post or create a new topic that already has been covered. They post with a few hyperlinked ads, and they are done, never to be seen or heard from again. If you see an ad, don't click on it, as that will only drive more advertisers to the forum. Please report all ads that you see. Such users are properly dealt with upon sight.

Other bots are "spiders", which are tools used by search engines to find keywords on sites. Because spiders are the chief method used by search engines to find websites, banning those "Guests" would sever all outside help cables. People would find it unusually difficult to locate the forum.

Since the bots face no real harm to the forum, and the actions required to remove them would be harmful to the forum, no action will be taken against them.


yeah i hate it when people advertising on my forum it drives me nuts lol

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