One of my Discourse sites that attracts about 40 logged-on users a day is seeing spikes of > 500 user profile views on some days. I’ve used the Dataexplorer plugin to work out that most are from a single IP: 23.237.4.26 which does not appear to be from a registered user. SELECT user_profile_view…

Yep, indeed, on doing this: root@blah-app:/var/log/nginx# grep '23.237.4.26' access.log.1 I discovered many instances of this: AlphaBot/3.2; +http://alphaseobot.com/bot.html Found this: http://www.theinternetofbots.com/list-of-bots/alphabot.html A bot for collecting data for SEO reports? So I…

Can you check your HTTP request logs to see what the user-agent is for the request?

what is the issue associated with the above? if you don’t mind explaining it :smiley:

Search your site setting for “blacklisted crawler” and add unique user agent strings as you see fit.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 27, 2018, 10:01am 4

Good news! @neil is working on a feature that lets you block badly behaved bots. Should be ready by end of week.

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