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David Ray

David Ray

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SSLLLLOOOOWWWW and STOP!
I thought "site maintenance' was done a day or so ago.
What gives?

MODERATOR EDIT:

The problem has been identified and will be fixed shortly. Our site has been getting hit aggressively by a BOT. Putting a block in place.
 
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Rmfnlt said:
Everybody donate!!! :laugh1:
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Jacobarch said:
Wonder why? I mean its a fan site. Doesn't make much sense but what do i know...
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Our server was getting overwhelmed by requests from Bytespider, which is ByteDance’s AI crawler. ByteDance owns TikTok; its crawler gathers content for AI training. Our forum offers lots of original human writing: opinions, questions, answers, and ongoing conversations. That makes it useful material for automated collection.

This isn't the first time this has happened and it will likely happen again with these web crawlers for AI and Search Engines.

I am seeing what can be done to detect this is happening before it overwhelms things, like what happened this time.
 
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Probably part of the CloudFlare business model... :thinking:

But in all seriousness, CF does have some zero cost entry level services (or loss leaders) probably leading to the real bread and butter.... :sur:
 
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CGI_Ram said:
Our server was getting overwhelmed by requests from Bytespider, which is ByteDance’s AI crawler. ByteDance owns TikTok; its crawler gathers content for AI training. Our forum offers lots of original human writing: opinions, questions, answers, and ongoing conversations. That makes it useful material for automated collection.

This isn't the first time this has happened and it will likely happen again with these web crawlers for AI and Search Engines.

I am seeing what can be done to detect this is happening before it overwhelms things, like what happened this time.
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Who would have thought a forum of Rams fans would ever be a source for AI.
I know we have a lot of very intelligent members here, but how the hell does AI know that from what we share on ROD?:laugh4:
 
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CGI_Ram said:
its crawler gathers content for AI training. Our forum offers lots of original human writing: opinions, questions, answers, and ongoing conversations. That makes it useful material for automated collection.
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Can't believe that's even legal, but here we are.
 
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