Understanding PF Robot: What is a Robot on the PF Forum?

[Stephanus]

Dear PF Forum,
I just saw interesting windows at the bottom right corner of PF website.
Total 964(members: 39, guest:837, robots: 88)
That's a every interesting statistic. So when we post something and don't get answer immediately we'll know that at that moment PF Forum is a rather quiet, just a few members are online.
What are members? People who sign in?
What are quest? People who visit PF Forum but don't log in or sign up
Robots? What are they?

And another window
Discussions: 583,909
Messages: 4,692,472
What is the difference between discussion and messages?
Is discussions = thread?
Is messages = post/reply to the thread?

Thanks.

 

[mfb]

What are members? People who sign in?
What are quest? People who visit PF Forum but don't log in or sign up

Right.

Robots? What are they?

Mainly search engines, looking for new content to add to their search index.

Discussions: 583,909
Messages: 4,692,472
What is the difference between discussion and messages?
Is discussions = thread?
Is messages = post/reply to the thread?

Right.

 

[Stephanus]

Wow, that is fast!
If I didn't know you better, I would think this is robot response.
Thanks.

 

[Stephanus]

Sorry, whose search engines?
PF's or others like Google, Bing, Altavista?

 

[mfb]

The forum search engine does not appear there, it does not need to "visit" the website as it has direct access to the database.
Yes, external search engines, Google, Bing and so on.

 

[Stephanus]

Wow. That's why when I tried to search some specific asnwer for my curiosity yesterday about kinetic energy in google. I was surprised that google gives me back my own post in PF 3 months ago.
Good luck PF Forum!
[Add: First result, top list on the first page]

 

[Stephanus]

Something funny happens.
When I tried to click the click, PF forum shows this.

Don't worry. I completely understand that. It's just that DaleSpam has merged that post (mine) with my other post.

It's not a protest. For a second I thought that there's an error. Then I remember that my post has already been moved.
Perhaps the robots haven't updated that particular entry, may be later.

 

[OCR]

Something funny happens.

Here's what Firefox says... about:robots

Lol, go ahead, click... Try Again.

Then, I double dog dare you ... click again.....


Edit: Well you have to copy and paste about:robots into your address bar, it doesn't want to link...

I'm a n00b ... lol

 

[Stephanus]

Here's what Firefox says... https://www.physicsforums.com/about:robots [Broken]

Lol, go ahead, click... Try Again.

Then, I double dog dare you ... click again.....

Well, the first sentence is like Isaac Asimov three laws of robot.
The second and the third? I don't know. Isaac Kashdan perhaps?

 

[OCR]

Well, the first sentence is like Isaac Asimov three laws of robot.
The second and the third? I don't know. Isaac Kashdan perhaps?

Lol... it's from "The Day the Earth Stood Still "...

"Klaatu barada nikto"

And...

In the Firefox web browser, the about:robots page is an Easter egg containing a small number of robot references, with the page title reading Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

Anyway, lol... carry on.

 

[OCR]

Here's what I was attempting to talk about ... ... lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_URI_scheme

 

[OCR]

I didn't, I didn't, I was ascared... I swear!