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What are these? Nov 25, 2009
Registered users: Ask Jeeves [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], karenb, MSN [Bot], WhiteJade, Yahoo [Bot], Zahra2


Great... now the fun of knowing who's here has been deprived
:(

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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
WhiteJade wrote:Registered users: Ask Jeeves [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], karenb, MSN [Bot], WhiteJade, Yahoo [Bot], Zahra2


Great... now the fun of knowing who's here has been deprived
:(


I was actually wondering what they were as well, although it still identifies the people that are logged on.
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
and MODs names are not green anymore!
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
melika969 wrote:and MODs names are not green anymore!


This is a most serious issue that needs to be resolved - come on the greeniesssssss

8)
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
Go for it m8, I need to be green :shock:
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
The star in some thread's icon means that I had a post in that thread?
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
I believe their a section to ask questions, I don't actually have the answers as it was the Administrator who set up the new system.
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
Apart from the width issue, why not enlarge character font a little bit, so that grandpapas do not have to look for glasses to visit :lol:
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
Most of these a bots or spiders. Little software programs that scan the website in order to help search engines find them according to a users relevance. For example Googleadsense would be that looks for words on a page and pops up related adverts on the page.

And by clcicking on these DF makes some pennies, Like I said I rather click on these and contribute to the site and old and gone RK's spam
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
hehe, when someone is online, there is a label on their avatar "online"!
Nice!
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Yup was never the one to hide my online status in the first place. So really don't mind the tag 8)
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Re: What are these? Nov 25, 2009
WhiteJade wrote:Registered users: Ask Jeeves [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], karenb, MSN [Bot], WhiteJade, Yahoo [Bot], Zahra2


Great... now the fun of knowing who's here has been deprived
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These are search engine bots.
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Re: What are these? Nov 26, 2009
WhiteJade wrote:Apart from the width issue, why not enlarge character font a little bit, so that grandpapas do not have to look for glasses to visit :lol:

At top right of every page, just above login / logout link, is a text size adjustment link. Looks like "vA^".
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melika969 wrote:The star in some thread's icon means that I had a post in that thread?

Supposed to be, but I've just seen one thread without a star even though I posted in it.

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sage & onion wrote:
WhiteJade wrote:Registered users: Ask Jeeves [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], karenb, MSN [Bot], WhiteJade, Yahoo [Bot], Zahra2


Great... now the fun of knowing who's here has been deprived
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I was actually wondering what they were as well, although it still identifies the people that are logged on.

melika969 wrote:hehe, when someone is online, there is a label on their avatar "online"!
Nice!

desertdudeshj wrote:Yup was never the one to hide my online status in the first place. So really don't mind the tag 8)

If you select the "Hide my online status this session" on login then your name doesn't show, and "online" doesn't show on status.
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Re: What are these? Nov 26, 2009
Thanks Bonk, Helpful
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