(12-12-2024, 03:23 AM)Patricia Wrote: Has anyone ever noticed how many visitors, at any one time, are skimming the PW pages? Has anyone ever noticed how few of them actually say anything? Engage, at all? It is always, pretty much, a handful of the same "names."
I thought PW would be a good place to discuss. Some of you seem so clever- and boy, don't you know it. But think I will just skim, like the majority, and watch the vocal minority sarcastically compete, wit for wit, with one another- or tear each other apart.
Feeding time!
https://youtu.be/GYLy2-Eoy2I?si=k6DSEXS77--E29BW
These mostly aren't Punaweb users, they're "guests". Some of them might be Punaweb users who aren't logged in, or someone who stumbled across the site, but 99% of them are bots. Some of them are legitimate, like search engine crawlers, but mostly they are security bots, malware scanners, spam bots, etc. They scan forums like this one all over the internet 24/7 looking for something they can exploit. The bots are constantly being updated with new things to look for, so the scanning never stops. Some of them are operated by various alphabet agencies of governments throughout the world, but most of them are operated by the criminals who aren't above the law. Because of AI, expect these to continuously increase.