The BOTS Outnumber the Active Members

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The BOTS Outnumber the Active Members

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WOW! What is happening? It seems that the numbers of active BOTS outnumbers the number of Active Forum Users.
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7 guests and me...........

BTW like the "new you" avatar!

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Being grossly illiterate regarding techspeak, the term "BOTS" is not familiar. Can you please increase my meager knowledge base?
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Gene Howe wrote:Being grossly illiterate regarding techspeak, the term "BOTS" is not familiar. Can you please increase my meager knowledge base?
Search engine robots.

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Gene Howe wrote:Being grossly illiterate regarding techspeak, the term "BOTS" is not familiar. Can you please increase my meager knowledge base?
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The Bots that are "members" here are scripts/programs that monitor activity on the forum, ie. Google [Bot] reports activity here to Google to keep their search results up to date and current.
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Got it. Thanks.
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Now about last night - no/very few posts.
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Its Fall, beautiful weather, folks are out enjoying the outdoors .... at least that is me and making a bunch of saw dust .... :D
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Maybe the Bots are doing all the woodworking and sawing while the rest of us are reading the forum. :)
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My problem is that I forget to login everyday even though I browse the forum.
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