I is starting to make me feel uneasy!
Can moderators ban them or are they ticks on a horse?
Bingbot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot
Googlebot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot
The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected
They're what the search engines use to gather and index information from the forums (public posts, not restricted subforums, PMs, or anything else private). As far as I know, they're available by default in phpBB-based forums, not sure about the others.
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