Guest users keep appearing

[Jade Elizabeth]

It's very helpful to know who's a guest and who's a spider. I have mine set to admin only so people think the forum is busier than it is lol.

[Kiriakos GR]

Regarding the Guest Mod this was lastly updated five years back.
It database this is tremendously old.

Only in the past six months Bing search engine added at least 200 new IP of search bots.
Google did that too,  new uncatalogued search bots from Russia, France and China, all of them copying and even printing, anything available to Guests.

My solution was to minimize to 10% what guests can see, and to add yearly subscription up front,  before any one makes any new membership request.
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