Toby
Cleared for Takeoff
Right now there are 9, count 'em, 9, slurp spiders. Sounds like a line in the Christmas song -- nine slurping spiders, eight maids a milking.....
I know they're good. I just can't get around the itch factor.Brian Austin said:Good! We want them! More spiders = better coverage on the search engines. Woohoo!
Automated program that "crawls" the World Wide Web (www) gathering information for search engine indexes. Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc., all have spiders for their search engines.maximus said:Whats a spider
Nah, those are tagged as "guests" in our setup. In Internet speak, they're usually called "lurkers".EHITCH said:web crawlers -- huh. well, you learn something every day. I thought spiders were folks who were, well, "spying" on the site, reading posts but not registering.
Elizabeth
Lurkers aren't necessarily considered a bad thing. They're primarily people who have no interest in participating in conversations (for whatever reason) but enjoy reading stuff on the site. Every discussion group has them unless it's password protected for even read-only status (PoA isn't). Even then you'll see members who have joined but not posted at all, simply so they could have some of the customization available to members (like message tracking, etc.).EHITCH said:Lurkers. Hmm. Calls to mind shifty looking gents in shabby raincoats. Oh never mind, those are flashers.