Mystery of the Ancient Boards

Andymii

Andymii

'Hoy, small fry!
Here's something strange I noticed:

Press the "121 Guests, 28 Users (3 Hidden)" (or whatever the numbers are) link on the main page of the forums.


You'll notice that many of the Guests are viewing very old topics. Are unregistered users really all digging up old pages to view them?
 
Search engine spiders indexing pages
 
Andymii said:
Here's something strange I noticed:

Press the "121 Guests, 28 Users (3 Hidden)" (or whatever the numbers are) link on the main page of the forums.


You'll notice that many of the Guests are viewing very old topics. Are unregistered users really all digging up old pages to view them?
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Bots and web trawlers.
 
It really is quite strange, isn't it. Well, maybe you should do more research before coming to such an unlikely and unrealistic and absurd conclusion.
 
In case you didn't realize, my "conclusion" wasn't serious.

The whole reason I asked this was because I doubted that people were actually digging up old pages.
 
Ghost Jam said:
Lakituthequick said:
Asgore said:
Search engine spiders indexing pages
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Ghost Jam said:
Bots and web trawlers.
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Those are indexed as such by the forum software and only visible to admins.
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Well, admins or anyone with above regular user privileges? I've never looked.
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Normally only admins, that's default for SMF afaik. Spiders would then appear in Who's Online in the dropdown, instead of just members and guests.
 
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