Tech question for the admin: What is Majistic-12 [Bot]?

[Matt Kirsch]

At the bottom of a forum page, I saw this:

"Users browsing this forum: Majestic-12 [Bot], Matt Kirsch and 4 guests"

Is Majestic-12 a benevolent bot or malevolent bot?

 

[Dennis]

Easy search: https://mj12bot.com

We get dozens or bots that crawl and index the site. Google, Yahoo, Bing, and many smaller ones. Lately, AI bots have been causing a lot of sites problems by heavily scanning for data they can use - a few have brought this site to its knees