08-29-2007, 10:57 AM
HQ now shows the list of members that are online like most other sites do - - the apperance of the Guests category has had people wondering how there can be guests on a site that is supposed to be closed to all but paying members.
It was questioned here and on other sites as well - made me a little curious too since there isn't an invisible option for members there - yet at least.
Went hunting for an answer with a PM and was directed to a thread on HQ.
Agree that nothing should be taken from HQ as a direct quote normally - but since this question was raised on our site which is open to anyone and people who are not registered on HQ cannot follow a link, I am quoting the answer given by admin7
It was questioned here and on other sites as well - made me a little curious too since there isn't an invisible option for members there - yet at least.
Went hunting for an answer with a PM and was directed to a thread on HQ.
Agree that nothing should be taken from HQ as a direct quote normally - but since this question was raised on our site which is open to anyone and people who are not registered on HQ cannot follow a link, I am quoting the answer given by admin7
Quote:
admin7
The "guests" are not actually members but search bots that index the site for search engines, for ex., the Yahoo! Slurp Spider.
The "guests" are not actually members but search bots that index the site for search engines, for ex., the Yahoo! Slurp Spider.
even our infant site has quite a few crawler bots so stands to reason that THHQ would have a Lot of visits from them - -
Slurp Spider cracks me up - -
this is a link to the post the quote came from for those who can do it
http://taylorhicks.messageboards.musicto...stcount=22
