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[MechDuster]

Ive been looking around in the names wich
were on the Mechwarrior Online Forums
and found something very interresting..

and ive been bothering what these Names are doing here?
Today the 9th : Looking around in Names.
Seeing names as :
Google
Yahoo
Facebook
MSN/Bing

And some more..
But are that some peopel who gave themself these names like Google
or is google boss a huge fan of Mechwarrior and regristed himself on this site
such as his Friends Facebook and MSN?!

WHATS GOING ON?!
I DONT WANT KILL GOOGLE ON MECHWARRIOR ONLINE AND GET BANNED FROM THE SITE FOREVER!
AND ALSO ON YAHOO!
I NEED MY EMAIL!

[Feindfeuer]

Probably those names show up when the search-bots of each of those services is browsing through the forums. Most boards just tag them as guests, but as they are well knows it's not rocket-surgery to let them show up as the service associated with the bot used.

[Ravyn]

MechDuster, on 09 August 2012 - 12:34 PM, said:

Ive been looking around in the names wich
were on the Mechwarrior Online Forums
and found something very interresting..

and ive been bothering what these Names are doing here?
Today the 9th : Looking around in Names.
Seeing names as :
Google
Yahoo
Facebook
MSN/Bing

And some more..
But are that some peopel who gave themself these names like Google
or is google boss a huge fan of Mechwarrior and regristed himself on this site
such as his Friends Facebook and MSN?!

WHATS GOING ON?!
I DONT WANT KILL GOOGLE ON MECHWARRIOR ONLINE AND GET BANNED FROM THE SITE FOREVER!
AND ALSO ON YAHOO!
I NEED MY EMAIL!

Really?

Those are search engines bots.

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Web_crawler

[Astaroth]

What Ravyn said. Those names you see represent the web crawler engines from their respective sites. There isn't a player named Google, it's just that Google's web crawler engine is checking out the MWO site and indexing it. Same for Yahoo! and all the others. The form "logs" it as a user, but it's not really a user.

[Celldoor]

strangest bot is one that located male names and propositions them, we lovy long time, lol PGI is aware and deep into removing them. Bots are a sure sign that someone sees promise of greatness or they would not bother. certain search bots are a compliment to game, my slipping confidence in game has just rose a few notches.

Edited by Celldoor, 09 August 2012 - 12:53 PM.

[costi]

These are probably indexing bots.

EDIT: way to be late to a party...

Edited by costi, 09 August 2012 - 01:00 PM.