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Registered members
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:02 pm
by pjw
Snipped from the Board Index page:
Registered users: Baidu [Spider], pjw
Hmm, I wonder how a Baidu spider managed to register..
Re: Registered members
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:42 pm
by tofro
Baidu spider is supposed to be a web crawler for the Chinese Baidu search engine.
Generally, it is recommended to block them completely using .htaccess, as it is not very probable they find anything Chinese here except maybe VP's KungFu movies
- Wonder how many Chinese readers we have?
Tobias
Re: Registered members
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:45 pm
by RWAP
Baidu, Google, Bing spiders etc are classed as members by any phpBB installation so far as I know...
Re: Registered members
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:48 pm
by tofro
Baidu is a bit senseless, as it's looking for Chinese glyphs only.....
Tobias
Re: Registered members
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:14 pm
by vanpeebles
tofro wrote:, as it is not very probable they find anything Chinese here except maybe VP's KungFu movies
Haha I like it
I wonder one day if it will say Horace and the [spiders]
Just to add they aren't actually registered members, it has a separate thing to handle spiders.
Re: Registered members
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:33 am
by robheaton
RWAP wrote:Baidu, Google, Bing spiders etc are classed as members by any phpBB installation so far as I know...
Rich is correct, the web spiders have accounts by default in phpBB, we can disable them individually if needed. I can't see any harm in them though. (Famous last words!
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Just to confirm, the private Quanta Members forum isn't indexed by any spiders.