Finding out new stuff about the forums.

[AG31]

Today I clicked on the Members item in the main forum menu. I'd never done that before. Interestingly, I didn't recognize a single name in the lists of most messages and highest reaction scores. But I do have two questions.

I clicked somewhere. I thought it was associated with "Members," and was presented with four choices. One of those choices was "robots." I clicked on that and saw a list of entries like "Amazon bot: viewing (name of a thread)."

1 - What did I click on to get to that spot? I can't find it again.
EDIT: I found it. Click on the down arrow to the right of Members and then click on "current visitors." Then you get a choice of Everone, Members, Visitors and Robots

2 - Why would Amazon (and others) send bots out to view our threads?

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[NuclearFairy]

Oh! It's the little arrow next to members. Click on it and then current visitors and then robots.

Also some of those bots have weird names. What are they watching for?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

IIRC those are just data scrapers and crawlers that help search engines and whatnot; lots of technical stuff that I honestly don't care much because I've seen those robots on forums that don't even use the XenForo engine.

 

[Melon_Morph]

There are countless "bots", basically just software scripts, constantly searching through the public internet autonomously. Theyre collecting info for all sorts of stuff. For example that is how search engines work and how AI models are trained.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I speculate with no information: the Amazon bot is checking Literotica (and other sites) to be sure no one uploads any copyrighted Amazon books.

-Rocco

 

[MelissaBaby]

Today I clicked on the Members item in the main forum menu. I'd never done that before. Interestingly, I didn't recognize a single name in the lists of most messages and highest reaction scores.

There have been 3.2M posts in the AH.

23.3M in Personals, 17.2M in the General Board.

 

[jaF0]

And the stats haven't been updated since the site revamp.

The latest member soccerkid signed up in October 22 according to the frozen stats on the front page.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

And the stats haven't been updated since the site revamp.

The latest member soccerkid signed up in October 22 according to the frozen stats on the front page.

@Manu?

 

[Britva415]

I speculate with no information: the Amazon bot is checking Literotica (and other sites) to be sure no one uploads any copyrighted Amazon books.

-Rocco

You'd think it would be 100% just as easy for them to therefore be sure no one publishes Kindle books with other people's copyrighted stories.