We're being attacked :P

[squeeble]

Just dropped in to see if there were any new posts and noticed something rather odd.

Usually theres a few guests but you can see what there doing, wtf's going on here?


http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/squeeblish/whosonline.jpgTo bigger shot

[ChaosControl]

*Plays a old-skool horror tune*

[Aaron]

This happens from time to time when we're being crawled.

[squeeble]

Forgive me but I'm unfamiliar with that forum term.

[Jari]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

[squeeble]

Ah I see now, thanks cat man.
I do get your name reference now by the way lol, haven't played much Bioshock in a while though.

[Synergy Blades]

What is it the spiders are trying to do that generates "Nothing, or nothing you can see..."?

[Jari]

That is a good question. And I have no idea of the answer.

Some Googling (example) revealed that this has happened to other boards as well. So, whatever it is, it's not unique to this board.

[Synergy Blades]

I had a really quick flick through the SMF source, and it looks like it sets the 'action text' to be that which I mentioned, before it goes on to set it to a specific value, such as looking at a particular topic. Under some conditions, such as the topic ID being empty, no permission to view the action type, and so on, it'll stay as "Nothing..." etc.