Welcome to GUBU.ie - if you're new here check out Housekeeping for more info. Any queries contact us.

Bots

If you're of the view that there is a need for an old school, simple style, classic BB, with more focus on debate and discussion than bells and whistles, then gubu.ie is for you. See here for some site specific information, admin announcements, forum requests, feedback etc.
Forum rules
No racism or hate speech. Attack the post not the poster. Don't be a dick.
Post Reply
User avatar
Dave Hedgehog
Posts: 125
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:01 pm

Bots

#1

Post by Dave Hedgehog »

Just spotted this in the active users list, saw one I think titled Alexa yesterday too.
Attachments
Screenshot_20210721-182659_Chrome.jpg
Screenshot_20210721-182659_Chrome.jpg (5.97 KiB) Viewed 5935 times
Guburnor
Site Admin
Posts: 441
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:54 am

Re: Bots

#2

Post by Guburnor »

Forum software is set so bots from google etc are recognised and assigned a bot user role with no permissions - i.e allows them to read and index the site for search purposes, but nothing else.
User avatar
Dave Hedgehog
Posts: 125
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:01 pm

Re: Bots

#3

Post by Dave Hedgehog »

Cool, I'm technologically illiterate in the main so just flagging in case there was anything more nefarious afoot.
User avatar
Scorchio
Posts: 24
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:58 pm

Re: Bots

#4

Post by Scorchio »

How do I forward a PM? Got a pm asking if I wanted to join politics Isle or some such.
User avatar
Scorchio
Posts: 24
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:58 pm

Re: Bots

#5

Post by Scorchio »

Guil
Verified Username
Posts: 17
Joined: Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:11 pm

Re: Bots

#6

Post by Guil »

Scorchio wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:38 pm How do I forward a PM? Got a pm asking if I wanted to join politics Isle or some such.
Bit messy but click reply, click the quote button on the message they sent and then up the top you can add a recipient
Guburnor
Site Admin
Posts: 441
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:54 am

Re: Bots

#7

Post by Guburnor »

Scorchio wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:38 pm How do I forward a PM? Got a pm asking if I wanted to join politics Isle or some such.
You can report a PM in the same ways as a post.

Thanks to all who did so. I got spammed too and user is banned now.
User avatar
Scorchio
Posts: 24
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:58 pm

Re: Bots

#8

Post by Scorchio »

Guburnor wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:53 pm You can report a PM in the same ways as a post.

Thanks to all who did so. I got spammed too and user is banned now.
I just did it there to check. You should get another report now.
Guburnor
Site Admin
Posts: 441
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:54 am

Re: Bots

#9

Post by Guburnor »

Scorchio wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:55 pm I just did it there to check. You should get another report now.
Got it thanks.
490808
Posts: 1487
Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:10 pm

Re: Bots

#10

Post by 490808 »

Now we have Bing [Bot] eyeballing us.
Guburnor
Site Admin
Posts: 441
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:54 am

Re: Bots

#11

Post by Guburnor »

The Continental Op wrote: Sat Jul 24, 2021 2:52 pm Now we have Bing [Bot] eyeballing us.
Bingbot is a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft October 2010 to supply Bing.[1] It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Bing (search engine). It performs the same function as Google's Googlebot.
User avatar
Scorchio
Posts: 24
Joined: Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:58 pm

Re: Bots

#12

Post by Scorchio »

There's two weird usernames showing in a grey, bold, larger font. MSFT and Sergey I think.

If you click on their name nothing happens. As they look and act differently to other registered users I'm not sure if they're bots or something more sinister.
Waning Gibbus
Posts: 80
Joined: Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:47 pm

Re: Bots

#13

Post by Waning Gibbus »

There's another one I noticed - goes by "Legend"
Guburnor wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:35 pm Forum software is set so bots from google etc are recognised and assigned a bot user role with no permissions - i.e allows them to read and index the site for search purposes, but nothing else.
Allows them to 'read' what though? Posts, obviously - which anyone can do, registered or unregistered.... Apart from posts, what else can these bots read? PMs , Drafts?? Don't know what index the site means...
Post Reply