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Title: Haunted forums?
Post by: Wulf Thunderbolt (Thunderwolf47) on April 13, 2017, 01:07:46 am
So I witnessed something that I find funny yet haunting, in a good way, on these forums. Over the past week I've been on the forums late at night when nobody is on, the POOF 22 guest show up and start looking at random stuff on the forums.... ITS strange yet funny, why at 12:55 am PST?

(https://forums.harbor-roleplay.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1042.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb424%2FThunderwolf47%2FScreenshot_2017-04-13-00-50-17_zpsux2puwok.png&hash=c1671bb5c7c2afaa071ffed22b56c061)
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: Jerry Slime on April 13, 2017, 08:00:05 am
Quote from: Thunderwolf47 on April 13, 2017, 01:07:46 am
So I witnessed something that I find funny yet haunting, in a good way, on these forums. Over the past week I've been on the forums late at night when nobody is on, the POOF 22 guest show up and start looking at random stuff on the forums.... ITS strange yet funny, why at 12:55 am PST?

(https://forums.harbor-roleplay.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1042.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb424%2FThunderwolf47%2FScreenshot_2017-04-13-00-50-17_zpsux2puwok.png&hash=c1671bb5c7c2afaa071ffed22b56c061)
i am gonna be on forums ghost was now i will see if i find any thing thanks for the help

cause who you gonna call?
 me the ghost busters :)
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: ‎ on April 13, 2017, 10:59:26 am
No clue
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: NotRTLK on April 13, 2017, 05:48:59 pm
Ghosts.

Also known as spiders. Or robots.

Search engines be invading on their nightly quest for data.
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: Jerry Slime on April 13, 2017, 11:09:22 pm
Quote from: Thunderwolf47 on April 13, 2017, 01:07:46 am
So I witnessed something that I find funny yet haunting, in a good way, on these forums. Over the past week I've been on the forums late at night when nobody is on, the POOF 22 guest show up and start looking at random stuff on the forums.... ITS strange yet funny, why at 12:55 am PST?

(https://forums.harbor-roleplay.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1042.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb424%2FThunderwolf47%2FScreenshot_2017-04-13-00-50-17_zpsux2puwok.png&hash=c1671bb5c7c2afaa071ffed22b56c061)
still looking
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: TheTritonOfTheSea on April 14, 2017, 12:25:55 am
This phenomenon is pretty weird. If I had to guess though, I would say that all these bots late at night are data mining. They seem to be getting info from user profiles alot.
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: Wulf Thunderbolt (Thunderwolf47) on April 14, 2017, 09:28:48 am
GHOSTS!
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: ‎ on April 14, 2017, 02:14:16 pm
Quote from: Thunderwolf47 on April 14, 2017, 09:28:48 am
GHOSTS!

That is very not good. They should not be able to view profiles. They are caching your info. I am going to fix that.

Fixed.
Title: Re: Haunted forums?
Post by: ‎ on April 14, 2017, 02:21:19 pm
Quote from: NotRTLK on April 13, 2017, 05:48:59 pm
Ghosts.

Also known as spiders. Or robots.

Search engines be invading on their nightly quest for data.

If it were a real search engine, it would have showed as Google, Yahoo, etc in the Who's Online.

As you can see from the screenshot, they get counted as guests.

This was most likely some random run crawler going around trying to steal info from profiles. They can no longer do this.