Octopus Overlords

Does this seem right to you guys?

“In total there are 514 users online”

This is from stats at bottom of page. Seems like…a lot, no?

521 users online :: 9 registered, 3 hidden and 509 guests

Those "guests" are mostly search bots, no?

We were up to 576 "guests" a minute ago. I'm sure they are search bots but I've never seen that many. Is AI taking over already?

Wouldn't surprise me if "X" now has bots indexing the sites that allow embedding so he can charge them a fee.

610 right now with 599 guests.

I'd expect it's some machine learning model indexing most forums containing long-form prose.

The Meal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:53 pm I'd expect it's some machine learning model indexing most forums containing long-form prose.

I'm happy you feel this way. Can you tell me more about why you expect it's some machine learning model indexing most forums containing long-form prose?

If he's right, this site is likely a gold mine. Who says anachronistic things don't' have value!

Users browsing this forum: Kraken and 0 guests

I have that effect on people...and bots, too, it seems.

Yeah… that’s unusual. I’m not sure wtf that’s about, I’ll try and look in logs to see, being all guests they are likely bots… doing what though..

The Meal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:53 pm I'd expect it's some machine learning model indexing most forums containing long-form prose.

So you're saying that my long-winded walls of text are making us popular?

FishPants wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 11:01 pm Yeah… that’s unusual. I’m not sure wtf that’s about, I’ll try and look in logs to see, being all guests they are likely bots… doing what though..

I'm running Facebook Container. I can't imagine it threw 500 bots off my scent, but there you go.

It's just my fan base keeping tabs on my latest activities.

I was going to say it was because of me but so many of you beat me to the punch I guess it isn't.

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Kraken wrote:Users browsing this forum: Kraken and 1 guest

And 500+ spies!

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Couldn't sleep so was up early this morning - noticed this was over 500 users again so I've started poking around.. Found a large number of IP addresses from AWS Singapore connecting, blocked that range and it dropped to 380 users. I'm going to keep digging and blocking, not sure what these bots are up to.

And now it dropped to 161 guests.. Interesting, that's a lot of AWS singapore based bots.

A few more blocks of networks in AWS Dublin, and some "crawlers" registered domain (that ties back to an SEO marketing company not a search engine) and we are down to 23 users. That was a lot of scraping going on! Thanks for bringing it up to my attention.

FishPants wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:09 am A few more blocks of networks in AWS Dublin, and some "crawlers" registered domain (that ties back to an SEO marketing company not a search engine) and we are down to 23 users. That was a lot of scraping going on! Thanks for bringing it up to my attention.

No problem! Thanks for bouncing the enemy spy bots!

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:58 am

FishPants wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:09 am A few more blocks of networks in AWS Dublin, and some "crawlers" registered domain (that ties back to an SEO marketing company not a search engine) and we are down to 23 users. That was a lot of scraping going on! Thanks for bringing it up to my attention.

No problem! Thanks for bouncing the enemy spy bots!

Sounds just like something an enemy spy bot would say.
I think you should bounce him fellow humans.

Only bots say “fellow humans”.
It is known.

Or humans pretending to be bots!

"Sir? Are you aware that you're leaking coolant at an alarming rate?"