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I haven't got the tiniest clue as to why there was an outage, but saying there aren't any scraping bots is hilarious, I bet the souls of three forum regulars theres dozens, if not hundreds of scrapers constantly probing MD. Also, Spam Bots do post, or else @barto wouldn't have PTSD from SEA Gambling bots (gambling ads should be banned btw). It's just that most of them are thankfully getting caught by spam filters, but sometimes they do get through.

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I haven't got the tiniest clue as to why there was an outage, but saying there aren't any scraping bots is hilarious, I bet the souls of three forum regulars theres dozens, if not hundreds of scrapers constantly probing MD. Also, Spam Bots do post, or else @barto wouldn't have PTSD from SEA Gambling bots (gambling ads should be banned btw). It's just that most of them are thankfully getting caught by spam filters, but sometimes they do get through.

What about all these users selling drugs? 🤣

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I haven't got the tiniest clue as to why there was an outage, but saying there aren't any scraping bots is hilarious, I bet the souls of three forum regulars theres dozens, if not hundreds of scrapers constantly probing MD. Also, Spam Bots do post, or else @barto wouldn't have PTSD from SEA Gambling bots (gambling ads should be banned btw). It's just that most of them are thankfully getting caught by spam filters, but sometimes they do get through.
This is like the FBI coming to your house and telling you:

"Yeah that WAS an UFO you saw, and they DO probe your anus for their experiments. No big deal"
 
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I haven't got the tiniest clue as to why there was an outage, but saying there aren't any scraping bots is hilarious, I bet the souls of three forum regulars theres dozens, if not hundreds of scrapers constantly probing MD. Also, Spam Bots do post, or else @barto wouldn't have PTSD from SEA Gambling bots (gambling ads should be banned btw). It's just that most of them are thankfully getting caught by spam filters, but sometimes they do get through.
yep, hit the nail on the head. bots are everywhere these days, and expecting them to not be on a site that receives as much traffic as MangaDex would be nonsensical. i'm running 8 scraping bots on the site right now, and that's just one person. it scales up exponentially once you get into the real botfarm industry.
 
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yep, hit the nail on the head. bots are everywhere these days, and expecting them to not be on a site that receives as much traffic as MangaDex would be nonsensical. i'm running 8 scraping bots on the site right now, and that's just one person. it scales up exponentially once you get into the real botfarm industry.
But why would you scrape a fucking casual chatting thread of all places??? What are you going to scrape, my wincest jokes??😭😭
 
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But why would you scrape a fucking casual chatting thread of all places??? What are you going to scrape, my wincest jokes??😭😭
it's like digging through a trash pile to find a HDD with 6 billion Bitcoin invested into it; they're sifting through the trash to find the "valuable posts" (data, personal information, etc.)
 

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