do bots actually sign up for forums, or does the software or whatever automatically detect and display the bots as "currently online"?
speaking of bot... it's thinking
What do the bots on the messageboard do?
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grittykitty
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Re: What do the bots on the messageboard do?
grittykitty wrote:do bots actually sign up for forums, or does the software or whatever automatically detect and display the bots as "currently online"?
speaking of bot... it's thinking
That kind of information can be handled by the robots.txt file in a website. I think there are JavaScript implementations that achieve similar goals, but the way I learned is with robots.txt configuration.
More info here: http://www.robotstxt.org/