Who are these People and Why are they Watching our Forum?

[Kilmatead]

I suspect this is what happens when social heuristics meets bots and spiders and sniffers and other nefarious minions of stupid companies with nothing better to do.

It's a little weird - analyses and other nonsense. What is this obscene trend these days where everything and anything is tracked and summarised and stored away for people who are too lazy to read the originals? Someone make them stop. Or at the very least, make them go watch some other dysfunctional group of misfit toys.

The sentiment of the discussion, that spans over 4 days, is neutral. The discussion is quite engaging but isn't controversial. The users FrizzleFry, Kilmatead, nikos, were particularly engaged. It got people interested in the discussion. We find the discussion interesting and original.

Feck off ye creepy mechanised bastards.

[fgagnon]

FYI, here's the lastest 'bot list:

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BOT NAME	             LAST VISIT
Majestic-12 [Bot]     Jun 04, 2013 8:46 pm 
Google [Bot]          Jun 04, 2013 8:45 pm 
Bing [Bot]            Jun 04, 2013 7:14 pm 
Alexa [Bot]           Jun 04, 2013 7:22 am 
Exabot [Bot]          Jun 03, 2013 1:15 pm 
MSN [Bot]             Jun 02, 2013 1:08 pm 
psbot [Picsearch]     Jun 01, 2013 6:18 am 
YahooSeeker [Bot]     May 31, 2013 9:25 pm 
Yahoo [Bot]           May 23, 2013 5:53 am 
W3C [Validator]       May 22, 2013 10:39 am 
Heritrix [Crawler]    May 18, 2013 3:42 pm 
Gigabot [Bot]         May 13, 2013 11:44 am 

[Tuxman]

Maybe them bots are overwhelmed by Kilmatead's misuse of higher wordings.

[Kilmatead]

It's only a misuse of words if you aren't aware of what you're doing. I'm normally more phlegmatic about these evil little cockroaches (the kind they have in Texas, not the wimpy kind they have in New York), but I found it a little too weird that they're starting to convey attitudes in their summaries. Never mind that they now use the Royal "We"...

Besides, shouldn't you be out in the real world filling sandbags to help your drowning neighbours?

[Tuxman]

Not really. I'm far from Bavaria as well as from Saxony (given that my state is called Lower Saxony). Actually I'm sitting in my office and enjoying the warm beams from heaven. I wouldn't care much if some of them drowned if I wasn't forced to play human every now and then.