Online in the Last 24 Hours

[Cartith he/him]

I looked down at the Last online area, and noticed 204 users. i was surprised, then I noticed that a lot of them have weird names, such as( and this is a direct copy/paste):

Yf1BJktnw5 , Yr6CHtmkv4 , Zb1TRxetb1 , zcyawkev , zebobes, Zh2VPeovo8 , Zizoz, Zj5YCnnla0 , Zl6QWjuti9 , Zs0THmfip4 ,Zz1RWzjvh4.

 

I am just paranoid, or is this weird?

EDIT: I realize a few of those are just normal users, but the others are odd and somewhat alarming.

Edited September 16, 2013 by Cartith

[Miyabi She/Her]

These are often spambots which post spam topics and replies which link to other sites.

Thankfully administration keeps a tight check on these things and it is promptly removed.

[Chaos he/him]

I actually need to end up deleting those spam accounts individually, but they are banned at least.

[GreyPilgrim he/him]

I don't know if this is obvious, I'm not tech-savvy at all, but what does it mean when it says search engines such as Google and Bing are online? Does it mean that site showed up in a search somewhere (basically meaning that those two are always online in the last 15 minutes)? Not important, just curious.

[Chaos he/him]

In a way, yes. The way search engines work is that they crawl through the web, and when you see Google and Bing in that list, that means their scripts are crawling through the site.