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Traditional Catholic Faith => General Discussion => Topic started by: Telesphorus on April 30, 2011, 01:30:25 AM

Title: bot invasion
Post by: Telesphorus on April 30, 2011, 01:30:25 AM

right now there seem to be nearly 200  bots.

Is there a way in the software to distinguish between human visitors and bots on the who's online?

Title: bot invasion
Post by: LordPhan on April 30, 2011, 01:50:21 AM

From a programming standpoint the answer is no. The only way to get the bots out would be to have a page before the forum whereby a code is entered manually. You may or may not have seen them before where they say 'enter the code in the box' and the code is written in a way that cannot be identified as the letters that they are. IE: Only human intelligence could tell what they are.

Doing that would filter out the bots, but would be time consuming for everyone on the forum.