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[ethanara]

Im a bit choked when i saw that there was a re-captcha on the register page, but still the last bot have comed in here today.
i know that this has runned MANY TIMES, so sry.
But my question (except for better security) is:
cant you DELETE the bots fully, cuz it doesnt look nice when i look at the member list and see that around the half of the members is bots.
cant it be deleted?
Yours
Ethanara

[Silverthorn]

Im a bit choked when i saw that there was a re-captcha on the register page

I've implemented it like 10mins ago.

cant you DELETE the bots fully

Surely, I can. They'll be overnuked in the next pruning.

[ethanara]

uh i forgot.
how can you see if a member is a bot?
thinked about that question looong time

[Silverthorn]

how can you see if a member is a bot?

Certain patterns. And a bit of intuition. Nothing more on that side -- no need to tell all of our secrets

[LutiChris]

^ninja'd
u just see the signs, IP, sig, bio, advertisement, time...etc.

[MH-Razen]

i delete bots regularly with a database edit, but not daily

[oliveryungo]

Since there's a bot thread, a question to everybody-
How come some banned bots can be still online? Or are they just mods pulling the strings?

[Alectric]

oh, they can still visit this website, but they can view anything. They just get a page saying "you've been banned, reason: bot etc"
they cant do anything, just look at that page only :P