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Elk Development => Bug Reports => Exterminated Bugs => Topic started by: Jorin on February 12, 2015, 02:42:36 am

Title: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: Jorin on February 12, 2015, 02:42:36 am
I have two entries with the same value here. See screenshot please.
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: emanuele on February 12, 2015, 07:49:02 am
Looks like the wrong name is given to the guests "group".

Bug and blocker for 1.0.3.

Tracked: https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/issues/1960
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: Jorin on February 12, 2015, 08:11:02 am
QuoteActually... what does this select do?

It sets the board permissions for bots the same as the selected user group, so bots can only see what this user group can see.
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: emanuele on February 12, 2015, 09:32:35 am
That's what I thought.
TBH I'm not sure how that could be useful, spiders are guests, and they should be guests.
And, as far as I remember, if you give googlebots the permission to see things that "normal guests" cannot see, you get penalization.

/me wonders if it is one of those features to remove.
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: Jorin on February 12, 2015, 11:33:37 am
Remove it is fine for me.
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: Spuds on February 12, 2015, 02:53:35 pm
Quote from: emanuele – That's what I thought.
TBH I'm not sure how that could be useful, spiders are guests, and they should be guests.
And, as far as I remember, if you give googlebots the permission to see things that "normal guests" cannot see, you get penalization.

/me wonders if it is one of those features to remove.
I use that to set up spider groups to limit them even further than guests, restrict them to certain boards etc .. agree that you don't want to give them more than a guest, but there are cases when you want to give them less ....
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: emanuele on February 12, 2015, 03:45:58 pm
Ohhh... okay. :P
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: emanuele on February 21, 2015, 08:24:10 am
https://github.com/emanuele45/Dialogo/commit/7cb8dc26c44f60b927555f54ebe8f0a5e2a4d843

This was a bit more buggy than expected.
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: Spuds on February 21, 2015, 09:12:30 am
Ah interesting .. someone was being "clever" when that was done !
Title: Re: 1.0.1 membergroup-settings (restrictions) for bots
Post by: emanuele on February 21, 2015, 09:34:03 am
ehh...
Interestingly enough, the very first time it was coded "right" (in the sense that 1 was "converted" to 0), but after a while the "conversion" was removed.