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What is he/she/it? It is odd.
EDIT: Just realized how horrible the pic looked. That is NOT how it looks normally.
IDK who the heck this is...
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The Ninja - Squire
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Re: IDK who the heck this is...
Baidu is a Chinese search engine, and "Baidu [Spider]" is a web crawler for it.
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Teinaava - Past Contributor
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Re: IDK who the heck this is...
Ok, just seemed odd that a "Spider" was here. Sounded like a virus.
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The Ninja - Squire
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Re: IDK who the heck this is...
The Ninja wrote:Ok, just seemed odd that a "Spider" was here. Sounded like a virus.
Nope, not at all. phpBB3 (the software this forum runs on) has built-in "bot" users, so that whenever a bot or a search engine crawler is "viewing" The Elder Stats, it will show their "username" in gray on the Who is Online area. A spider is not a bad thing at all, it's just what search engines call their bots that search websites for information (in layman's terms).
Trust me - I'm on the phpBB Team and we meant to have spiders show up in the Who is Online area on phpBB3 forums.
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