Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Mallon View Post
At any given time there are usually over 1000 active "users" of which about 950 are search and/or AI scraping bots often from China or, as is the case tonight, Thailand. Google will be in there too, but Google actually pays attention to our bot instructions so they go easy to not bog down the server.

Then there are a few of what you call the random name bots that get through the first couple stages of my bot prevention, but they aren't able to post though they keep trying. Something like 90,000 total have gotten to that point since we opened the forum.
wow, thanks for defending the castle