Author Topic: user on here called MSNBOT (Read 2606 times)

Emerentiana · « **on:** June 15, 2010, 05:59:56 PM »

Do you all think maybe our forum is being watched? All of you know what a BOT is right? This person is MSN Bot!
Guess it may be my suspicious mind working overtime. Maybe this person will surface!:scratchchin: :detective:

Botnet : network of "zombie" computers used to carry out automated tasks such as spamming

Internet bot, computer program which does automated tasks

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** June 15, 2010, 06:09:05 PM »

CathInfo is a discussion forum, but it is also a website that can be indexed, or cataloged, by the search engines.

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and the other search engines send out "bots" or "spiders" to crawl the Web for content to add to their massive databases. That way, when someone searches for "traditional Catholic fight" CathInfo will come up near #1 in the search results :wink:

If your website is really important, they will send those spiders out on a daily basis. Smaller sites might see them once a week, or once or twice a month.

Google has to constantly keep up with what new content is out there, since content is being added/changed constantly.

For a long time now, the CathInfo forum software has been able to distinguish between these automated spidering bots, and regular guest users. That is why the bots show up under their proper name, "Googlebot", "MSNbot" etc.

Matthew

Emerentiana · « **Reply #2 on:** June 15, 2010, 06:23:16 PM »

Yeah, well Matthew, this is MSNBOT! :shocked: :scared2:

Emerentiana · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2010, 06:25:12 PM »

Now Google and Yahoo have joined! :thinking:

Alexandria · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2010, 06:46:33 PM »

The three that are on here continuously are:

Googlebot
MSNBot
Yahoo! Slurp

I've watched them watching us. They also are checking user profiles (once the both of them [Googlebot and Yahoo! Slurp] were checking me out at the same time).

I've also seen them copying threads.

Google and Yahoo are here all day - MSN not as often as they are.

I also would like to know how Guests can use the messenger and post. And why some registered users sometimes are identified as "Moderating."

:reporter:

Trinity · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2010, 07:24:52 PM »

Wow! I didn't realize all this and I can't see them doing all this. Hello out there! :wave:

MyrnaM · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2010, 07:27:54 PM »

Maybe they want to convert but can't decide if they want to be SV Catholics, SSPX Catholics, NO Catholics, Indult Catholics, StayatHome Catholics or ABC Catholics.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2010, 07:33:44 PM »

Quote from: Alexandria

The three that are on here continuously are:

Googlebot
MSNBot
Yahoo! Slurp

I've watched them watching us. They also are checking user profiles (once the both of them [Googlebot and Yahoo! Slurp] were checking me out at the same time).

I've also seen them copying threads.

Google and Yahoo are here all day - MSN not as often as they are.

I also would like to know how Guests can use the messenger and post. And why some registered users sometimes are identified as "Moderating."

:reporter:

How on earth are you able to know this????

MaterDominici · « **Reply #8 on:** June 16, 2010, 12:02:50 AM »

You ladies make me laugh with threads like this. :smile:

If you click on Active Users, it will show you the latest activity for each person active in the past (15) minutes. (might be 10 or 20 minutes, I don't recall)

The "bots" don't know the difference between a page of content like a thread and someone's profile which usually doesn't say much or change often. So, they have to scan the whole site. I'd imagine it will often show them using the messenger as well as that is a page on this site and the "bot" doesn't know the difference.

As for members "moderating". I think the site uses this term when someone is editing a post which is a moderating feature for a moderator. The same label is used when you're editing your own post.

MaterDominici · « **Reply #9 on:** June 16, 2010, 12:07:13 AM »

If you don't like being watched, you shouldn't really use the Internet at all. :tv-disturbed:

The only reason you have to believe that you're NOT being watched is that there are just too many people using the Internet and not enough humans "watching" to notice it all.

Alexandria · « **Reply #10 on:** June 16, 2010, 12:04:02 PM »

Quote from: MaterDominici

If you don't like being watched, you shouldn't really use the Internet at all. :tv-disturbed:

The only reason you have to believe that you're NOT being watched is that there are just too many people using the Internet and not enough humans "watching" to notice it all.

Not everyone grew up with the computer.

A thousand pardons for those of us who aren't computer literate.

Belloc · « **Reply #11 on:** June 16, 2010, 12:23:10 PM »

Quote from: Emerentiana

Yeah, well Matthew, this is MSNBOT! :shocked: :scared2:

you seem a bit paranoid.....why? watched or not, do you like CI? participate? then fine, who cares if the NSA is watching us-let them and maybe, learn something from us.....

Belloc · « **Reply #12 on:** June 16, 2010, 12:24:26 PM »

Quote from: Elizabeth

Quote from: Alexandria
The three that are on here continuously are:

Googlebot
MSNBot
Yahoo! Slurp

I've watched them watching us. They also are checking user profiles (once the both of them [Googlebot and Yahoo! Slurp] were checking me out at the same time).

I've also seen them copying threads.

Google and Yahoo are here all day - MSN not as often as they are.

I also would like to know how Guests can use the messenger and post. And why some registered users sometimes are identified as "Moderating."

:reporter:
How on earth are you able to know this????

I thought she said she was not computer literate??

MaterDominici · « **Reply #13 on:** June 16, 2010, 03:52:47 PM »

Quote from: Alexandria

Quote from: MaterDominici
If you don't like being watched, you shouldn't really use the Internet at all. :tv-disturbed:

The only reason you have to believe that you're NOT being watched is that there are just too many people using the Internet and not enough humans "watching" to notice it all.

Not everyone grew up with the computer.

A thousand pardons for those of us who aren't computer literate.

Those two aren't really the same thing. I did grow up with a computer and am as literate as I need to be, but I don't like being watched either.
:furtive:
I could post more, for example, but don't like the permanence of what I say being here forever for anyone to see.

Alexandria · « **Reply #14 on:** June 16, 2010, 03:57:26 PM »

Quote from: MaterDominici

Quote from: Alexandria
Quote from: MaterDominici
If you don't like being watched, you shouldn't really use the Internet at all. :tv-disturbed:

The only reason you have to believe that you're NOT being watched is that there are just too many people using the Internet and not enough humans "watching" to notice it all.

Not everyone grew up with the computer.

A thousand pardons for those of us who aren't computer literate.

Those two aren't really the same thing. I did grow up with a computer and am as literate as I need to be, but I don't like being watched either.
:furtive:
I could post more, for example, but don't like the permanence of what I say being here forever for anyone to see.

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Nor do I.