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GFN

2011-05-21, 10:45 PM
I just noticed that a member (Heather) has been reading the same thread about RSS News Bots "continuously" for the last 6 days and 17 hours. She doesn't stop reading it Huh She seems obsessed with it Smile

http://www.dailytalkforum.com/online.php

Also the thread has over 10,000 views just in 6 days

http://www.dailytalkforum.com/thread-rss-news-bot

Any thoughts about this?

Omar G.

2011-05-21, 10:59 PM
Maybe he is a living person and he suffer a accident O.O? That would be a good reason as I know yet when I'm kidding :p

It is just a bot i think...

Tried moving the thread?

GFN

2011-05-21, 11:12 PM
Quote:It is just a bot i think...

Yeah that's what I was thinking.... btw its a female bot not a male bot Toungue

Quote:Tried moving the thread?

I might just change the user name to Heather2

Nathan Malcolm

2011-05-21, 11:19 PM
Probably done with a script that visits the thread every x minutes.

GFN

2011-05-21, 11:26 PM
Quote:Probably done with a script that visits the thread every x minutes

Thanks Malcolm, what I don't understand is why would someone program a bot to visit a thread continuously over and over again?

Nathan Malcolm

2011-05-22, 12:06 AM
To get it views.

It's very simple to do, and it works flawlessly.
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