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Robots and Web Crawlers.

Web crawlers gather the information from websites (including this one) that populates Search Engines. When you search for something in your web browser, the results you get are the product of web crawlers gathering information, giving you a summary [extract] and linking back to the source website...like Seniors Only Club.
 
I call them Snoopers, because that is what they do. Snoop. That is one of the key reasons why I always use an Internet Persona. They can gather all they want to about Axel Slingerland, because all they would find is a fictionalized story about an old Blues Rocker. There's more truth on this forum than others I used to go to because I don't care that much anymore.

Edit: I don't know why I pass over key words that make a sentence make sense...
 
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Axel Slingerland said:
I call them Snoopers, because that is what they do. Snoop. That is one of the key reasons why I always use an Internet Persona. They can gather all they want to about Axel Slingerland, because all they would find is a fictionalized story about an old Blues Rocker. There's more truth on this forum than others I used to go to because I don't that much anymore.
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Well, Azel, my mother use to call me 'the gut spiller' why change now, nobody cares what we old codgers do anyway.She would tell me stop telling her business , I replied what business, which only got me some stripes across the body from her switch.
 
The Seniors Only Club was a pretty popular forum in its first iteration, as far as how it was indexed by the search engines. Links to our pages from that iteration remain throughout the Internet and in search engine indexes. These links are followed by search engine bots, other bots, and human beings. When the link is to one of the pages from the original forum, they will still be taken to this forum but to a page of it that does not exist. Thus, the bots follow other links here, while these new human visitors are less likely to join than if they had been taken to a page that does exist. Thus, they show up as guests. While known search engine bots show up in the "Robots" section, other bots show up as guests. They are not here to pry into your personal information; rather, they are simply following links, and there is very little to see here for anyone looking for valuable information. We don't require your real names or addresses, and we don't collect financial information, etc. Your email address, which is pretty much the only thing that is likely to be valid or useful to anyone, is not accessible to guests, bots, or even registered members. There is nothing to see here unless you're interested in what we're interested in, talking to other people near our own age.
 
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Marie Mallory said:
Well, Azel, my mother use to call me 'the gut spiller' why change now, nobody cares what we old codgers do anyway.She would tell me stop telling her business , I replied what business, which only got me some stripes across the body from her switch.
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Sounds familiar. My mom was quite handy with a switch too. What made it worse, she would send me out to the willow tree in our back yard to get a switch, and if I didn't get a "good switch", I know I was gonna get it twice. So I learned not to cross her.

But you do realize that I was talking about web crawlers and or sniffer bots, not people... Right?
 
Axel Slingerland said:
I call them Snoopers, because that is what they do. Snoop. That is one of the key reasons why I always use an Internet Persona. They can gather all they want to about Axel Slingerland, because all they would find is a fictionalized story about an old Blues Rocker. There's more truth on this forum than others I used to go to because I don't care that much anymore.

Edit: I don't know what I pass over key words that make a sentence make sense...
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I'm an author of dystopian sci-fi. So I guess my prescient ass is on "their" radar screen, slightly below all the George Orwells and John Galts out there.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Sounds familiar. My mom was quite handy with a switch too. What made it worse, she would send me out to the willow tree in our back yard to get a switch, and if I didn't get a "good switch", I know I was gonna get it twice. So I learned not to cross her.

But you do realize that I was talking about web crawlers and or sniffer bots, not people... Right?
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Let me go back and look.:unsure:
 
Ken Anderson said:
The Seniors Only Club was a pretty popular forum in its first iteration, as far as how it was indexed by the search engine. Links to our pages from that iteration remain throughout the Internet and in search engine indexes. These links are followed by search engine bots, other bots, and human beings. When the link is to one of the pages from the original forum, they will still be taken to this forum but to a page of it that does not exist. Thus, the bots follow other links here, while these new human visitors are less likely to join that if they had been taken to a page that does exist. Thus, they show up as guests. While known search engine bots show up in the "Robots" section, other bots show up as guests. They are not here to pry into your personal information; rather, they are simply following links, and there is very little to see here for anyone looking for valuable information. We don't require your real names or addresses, and we don't collect financial information, etc. Your email address, which is pretty much the only thing that is likely to be valid or useful to anyone, is not accessible to guests, bots, or even registered members. There is nothing to see here unless you're interested in what we're interested in, talking to other people near our own age.
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Poor Earl , he got all lost in it ! Lol
 
John Brunner said:
I'm an author of dystopian sci-fi. So I guess my prescient ass is on "their" radar screen, slightly below all the George Orwells and John Galts out there.
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Good grief! I never gave much thought to my fake screen name. Now I wished I had!😳 Apparently there are a number of Krystal Shay's on the internet. Sleezy actress's, models, and porn stars. What the He-double hockey sticks! 🫣 🤦‍♀️ 😅
 
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John Brunner said:
Why?
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I'm just speculating here, but Earl asked "Why so many guests?" and it's a possibility that he didn't like the answers he got. A lot of people don't like bots because of the snooping. I ran a forum for a friend's company Natural Yard. He was a biochemist and his key product was something he called the Natural Yard Formula. At first I didn't really get what he was doing and asked him "Is it fertilizer?" He said something like "No, it's more like dirt food. Specifically, it feeds the enzymes in the dirt, which spurs growth." He sent me some and Cindy had two flower boxes in front of our house and I did what he said on one of them. In that box, the flowers got huge, easily twice the size of the other one. The stuff really worked, and landscapers and gardeners loved it for what it did.

However, several of them said they did not like "being spied on." I was asked the same question that Earl asked. So I explained that the bots were essentially "Data Harvesters", and the data they collected populated Google. If you posted any of the key words I put in the settings, it would quote your post. There were about 30 gardeners on the forum and when they read about that, 4 of them left and said they were not coming back. I had to do something or the forum might get something in common with the population of ghost towns. I tried to tell people if you don't like bots spying on you, don't use the Internet. Because these bots are everywhere.

I couldn't do anything about what had already been quoted, but I could stop the bots from quoting forum members any further. I left the key words alone, but I specified in the forum settings where the bots were allowed to "harvest", and wrote a post explaining what the Natural Yard Formula was and a link to the forum. Then I specified that as the only folder on the forum that the bots could "harvest" data from. This worked as far as the data harvesting was concerned, and the rest of the members were ok with my solution. But the 4 who left, did not return.

Ken Anderson said:
We don't require your real names or addresses, and we don't collect financial information, etc. Your email address, which is pretty much the only thing that is likely to be valid or useful to anyone, is not accessible to guests, bots, or even registered members. There is nothing to see here unless you're interested in what we're interested in, talking to other people near our own age.
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I tried to tell people essentially the same thing. Some agreed, some still said they were spying on the forum. There are some people that once they believe something, it's too late to change their minds.
 
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