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The sad/funny thing is, over a year ago, I told my friend "Oh, it will be soon. It will come out soon and we can start up the forum again".

Hum...

Well, bots have less access than guests by default and get a stripped down version of the page. I don't really see a problem. You can also specify the IPs for bots in the ACP, if you really want to make it impossible.

I don't see the point, though.

http://shcommunity.mickens.us
Try it as a ...

Hm, give it a try: http://www.avivadirectory.com/bethebot/

It works, sadly...

This was on the front page of digg....

http://quicksilverscreen.com/ipb/index. ... opic=29115

concerning no?

some of the astonishing features that I would like the developers to add is ajax feature in the editor
so instead of the mess of bbcode we get the what i see is what i get , and that can remove the preview process
of the current editor , and it will make the process of posting a lot easier and ...

the_dan wrote:As opposed to just looking at Google's cache?

That's why I'm a bit confused. I did NOT specify somewhere that I wanted to LET google's search engine be able to see more than anonymous individuals (at least intentionally)... what is the default behavior in this/these circumstances?

No. Googlebot has more access to my forums than my "guest" user does... and I would rather not have someone fake their UA string to appear as Googlebot and have read access...

I hope that this is within the right scope for discussion here:

(Roughly) how does the Search Bot functionality work? Please just tell me that there are more assurances than simply checking the User Agent string... Does it do some reverse DNS checking... and is that still secure as well? Sorry for ...

I'm no expert with the phpbb3 backend, but would it really be much harder than simply adding a new status to the first post in the topic.
Did you read the topic? No, it would not be hard, what makes you think it is? Several solutions have been discussed in this very topic.

ahh man this i get ...

I'm no expert with the phpbb3 backend, but would it really be much harder than simply adding a new status to the first post in the topic. Currently there are drafts and published pieces, why not just "deleted" as a status -- they only show up when a user with proper permissions loads the topic list ...