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[aBc]

NEW, Odd… Topic Read Number Totals?

Two days ago, noticed that a topic I’d started (previously) 28 days ago… had a “Read Count” of nearly 94,000. [Wow! A seemingly very interesting subject?] Today, after a total of 30 days (two days later) that Read Count is 149,693 — an increase of around 55,693.

That’s around 27,846 reads per day. That can’t be right or accurate? Can it?
(Currently @ 157,817 Reads!)

Then, looked at other more recently started topics and found rather surprising numbers there as well.

   Is the Forum being visited, accessed or read by some-thing other than our usual daily visitors?

               

[robespierre]

It's "AI" scrapers. Many of them are very badly written and will request the same pages, over and over thousands of times. Apparently their creators asked AI to write them.

[ssp3]

So, there goes the forum statistics.. I guess AI engines can't be stopped with something similar to Robots.txt 

Protect the truth. Stop the theft of intellectual property. Make forum readable to registered users only!

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