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Pokemon Ranger
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I've noticed recently purple users referred to as bots on the online list.

Can someone explain to me what these are? Is ggogle/yahoo/whoever actually alive and reading our forums?

Can someone give me some insight on this?


Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:36 am
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The robotssssss are taking over. :0

I don't understand it all fully myself, but if I had to make a logical guess it would be the search engines' bots swarming around for stuff to display in searches.

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Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:18 pm
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They're gray, not purple.

And yes, it's just the crawlers indexing all the posts.

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Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:37 pm
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at first i thought it was a rare sight so i photographed it. but now i see them everytime i come on >_>


Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:37 am
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angelo chronos wrote:
at first i thought it was a rare sight so i photographed it. but now i see them everytime i come on >_>


Yeah, I saw them slightly but now they're repeatedly here EVERY time.

Jigglypuff wrote:
They're gray, not purple.


Actually it's magenta.

Registeel_Rocks wrote:
The robotssssss are taking over. :0


THE GREAT ROBOT CONSPIRACY OF 08!!! Afonso you should know what I mean :P

But it's just the engines finding what to put on the search engines? Whew, thats a relief.

Feel free to lock now mods, or you can just let this die down. Since when were you forced to lock posts?


Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:51 am
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Actually, as webmaster and template editor, I'm pretty sure it's not magenta.

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Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:55 pm
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Cellblock wrote:
Actually it's magenta.

Funny. It's supposed to be gray for everyone (which I assume based off of our webmaster's words), and for the most part I believe everyone sees it as gray. Maybe you're the chosen one and can see the bot's magenta-colored souls...?

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Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:36 pm
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Actually, owned.

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