The Guests among Us...

[BarkleUSA]

Just curious, I’m seeing 9 members and 69 guests on the forum at this moment. Has anyone ever stopped and wondered who the hell these 69 guests are and what they are doing here?

Could they be students doing a political science project, hackers, employers, the CIA, Al-Qaida, Hamas, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi - or just curious like minded conservatives?

Hello – Please identify yourselves. Hello??? Who are you?

<...chirping crickets>

Maybe I’m being paranoid here but after this last election, the Democrats somehow propped up candidates that convinced the voters that they were more pro-gun, pro-war on terroism, pro-life, pro-border security and pro-Christian values then their Republican opponents.

How the hell could they be so aware of mainstream America Christian conservative values (something totally anathema to the Democrats) unless they have been studying them somewhere - but where?

What message should we be sending to the Secret Silent Sixty-nine?

[Gonzo67]

most of them are search engine bots, gathering links for engines like Yahoo, google, ask, etc.

[The_Elucidator]

Just curious, I’m seeing 9 members and 69 guests on the forum at this moment. Has anyone ever stopped and wondered who the hell these 69 guests are and what they are doing here?

Could they be students doing a political science project, hackers, employers, the CIA, Al-Qaida, Hamas, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi - or just curious like minded conservatives?

Hello – Please identify yourselves. Hello??? Who are you?

<...chirping crickets>

Maybe I’m being paranoid here but after this last election, the Democrats somehow propped up candidates that convinced the voters that they were more pro-gun, pro-war on terroism, pro-life, pro-border security and pro-Christian values then their Republican opponents.

How the hell could they be so aware of mainstream America Christian conservative values (something totally anathema to the Democrats) unless they have been studying them somewhere - but where?

What message should we be sending to the Secret Silent Sixty-nine?

Barkley; I said it just after the '04 election when the 'Rat operatives were told to infiltrate message boards and act like one issue wonders to disrupt and dishearten the conservatives...looks like it worked! The memo was floated for a while then all of a sudden, like magic, just disappeared! Look for '08 to be even worse! BEWARE of the idiots who throw around terms like neo-con and traitors and crap like that. That is why I have no tolerance for those newbies, you don't know who they are or what interest they represent!

[Lubbock]

most of them are search engine bots, gathering links for engines like Yahoo, google, ask, etc.

Gonzo's right. I had it explained to me shortly after I became a poster here when I asked about it.

[Maggie_T]

On the bright side, some could also be honest people who want to be informed, for a change.

However, your point is duly taken.

[Beowulf]

Fundie and DU spies, seeing how we are reacting to losing the senate and house.

[Popperite]

Under "Quick Links" at the top right of the screen you can click on the option "who's online" and see for yourself.

[Maggie_T]

And anyway, even if we banned all the buggers, they can still go to any other conservative website and steal ideas from them.

There is no end to what the evil left will do. But this much is true. If they have to go around stealing ideas from conservative websites, and disguising their candidates as "moderates" at best, it is further proof that unaldultered leftism CANNOT be marketed, much less sold.

In the end, if the leftist wolf wants to win, he must always disguise himself in sheep's clothes. Telling.

I just hope lurkers keep that in mind.

[BarkleUSA]

RE:

In the end, if the leftist wolf wants to win, he must always disguise himself in sheep's clothes. Telling.

And it doesn’t work for Republicans to imitate Democrats – look what happened to Abramoff and Foley when they acted like typical Democrats.

[DesertFox]

Yeah. Only, the Republican copycats go to jail. Not Democrats. Democrats go back to Washington and set up shop doing on the outside what they used to do on the inside.

[SentWest]

I was one of those for a little while. I wanted to read a bit first before joining.

[Gonzo67]

I was one of those for a little while. I wanted to read a bit first before joining.


And we didn't scare you away? We must me getting soft in our old age. ;)

Welcome to FC :)

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[Longhorn_Platinum]

DesertFox:
Yeah. Only, the Republican copycats go to jail. Not Democrats. Democrats go back to Washington and set up shop doing on the outside what they used to do on the inside.

:unsmile: Foley wasted his time checking into the Betty Ford Clinic. He should've just switched parties. Being a demonic rat seems to immunize folks from all sorts of sins. It worked for Kennedy, Frank, Webb, & Byrd.

[DoctorDoom]

Although some are actual visitors/lurkers, they're usually the Google and Yahoo "spiders" aka "bots" that visit the board regularly to update the info in their respective search engines.

A web crawler (also known as a Web spider or Web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other less frequently used names for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms (Kobayashi and Takeda, 2000).

This process is called Web crawling or spidering. Many legitimate sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine, that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches. Crawlers can also be used for automating maintenance tasks on a Web site, such as checking links or validating HTML code. Also, crawlers can be used to gather specific types of information from Web pages, such as harvesting e-mail addresses (usually for spam).

A Web crawler is one type of bot, or software agent. In general, it starts with a list of URLs to visit, called the seeds. As the crawler visits these URLs, it identifies all the hyperlinks in the page and adds them to the list of URLs to visit, called the crawl frontier. URLs from the frontier are recursively visited according to a set of policies.Web crawler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler)

The attached image shows them.