Computer People

[Neobaron]

Why are the bots always looking at this topic?

Is there something special about it? It seems like every time I am on this forum, there is at least one bot lurking on this topic.

[Pippin]

its so interesting that one topic is enough to keep a bot attracted for life.

[Uiblis]

Maybe it's just you. I've seen them looking at this topic once or twice, but not every time.

[Rakefur]

What is the topic anyway?

[Ungatt Trunn II]

They look for key words, that thread has tons.

[Neobaron]

There are no words in that entire post.

Just strings of letters.

[Ungatt Trunn II]

It has theoretically every single 1, 2, and 3 letter word in the English language in it. If you didn't notice, the "sting of letters" follow a very simple pattern.

Besides those, they could also be various abbreviations to all sorts of things.

[Neobaron]

It stops at x, so the bit about "every" is a bit of a stretch.

But I suppose I see your point.

[Shadow]

that post is going to match a whole lot of regular expressions ^_^

[windhound]

Or the bot programmer was told to look for "Interesting" topics and took it too literally.