Bots are basically automated
scripts or
softwares. Some are developed to get you benefit and some are just made for marketing.
Some
spam bots can be programmed to bypass the captcha on registration and that is what is bad. For example this
forum has now one of the most advanced captcha modules in
PHPBB but still some
spam bots keep to go through it. Some people
work very hard on
bot development becouse it is some kind of the modern marketing. They are basicially the artificial intelligence which make your
site visits, create
forum posts, make your articles, manage your
site etc.
For example this
site has restrictions to popular bad
bots from crawling the
site whether it is a
forum, dir, front page or some other subdomain. That means
Renumia.com also.
So you see there are many restrictions when
bots are in question but still many of them are good developed so it is hard to make an antibot
scripts becouse they can be bypassed as soon as some
bot developers find them and make changes on their own
scripts.
But also
bots can be helpful. This
forum uses
bots to welcome every new user becouse manually it wouldn't be almost possible. So its just the way you use it. With
bots everything becomes automated. So no more hard
work and coding.
