Robot users?

[Joe]

Since I've been here tonight, there have been between nine and twelve users who are robots. What kind of robots are using the board? What goes on here? And can robots be veg*n?

 

[Second Summer]

In this context robots, also known as bots or spiders, are automated software running on e.g. Google's or Microsoft's computers that thrawl the web and typically index information for use in search engines. Our forum software recognizes the different bots the same way it recognizes your particular browser - I think when a program makes a HTTP request to get a particular web page, it can pass a string to inform the server which browser it is.

Are they vegan? Not sure! I'll let you know next time I see one feeding