Bots are working us over pretty good. Right now there are about 800 viewing. That seems to be why it's loading slowly.

Now it's over a thousand - 1112 Anonymous Guests

1208 now.

Usually they are in the IP group that starts with 57 but now they are in the 180's. Hong Kong, Colombia, Venezuela, ..........

Can't block them all unfortunately.

Extremely slow.

Isn't there any way to get rid of them?

It's very slow for me today. Click-on-a-post-and-go-get-a-cup-of-coffee-and-hope-it-loaded-by-the-time-I get-back-slow. LOL

I don't know of any way to keep them out. Now - 1303 Anonymous Guests

I changed the permission to view this forum. I'll switch it back in a bit. I'll see if that may help.

Looks like most of them are using Huawei as an ISP but likely all VPN's from that point outward. If ya block one group of IP's they just switch to another.

Maybe Patrice can figure out a way to deal with them. Have you talked to SD about it ?

I shut it down for awhile to maybe flush the buggers. We'll see.

Much better !! Thanks !!

Just curious, what are the bots doing, or looking for???

That seemed to have worked, back up to speed now for me, thanks.

You can be certain it isn't because they need info on dirt holes or blue buckets

What's a bot?

They are fly larva under the skin of cattle. Nasty little critters.

IP addresses can be set for anywhere. This is so you can't identify who's watching you. Or shopping you.

Haha

Thank you Paul, Can't imagine the pain it is to run this place.

wws

Been doing it to me for a while now and as we speak!

It's loading lightning fast for me right now.

Good here too

Comes and goes for me.

Stop in and it's good and quick, come back later and it's a dead stop.

Has me just bouncing between sites to give it time to fix itself.

This

It was pretty slow for me about an hour ago. So slow that I checked my internet connection to see if I was still online. It only lasted a few minutes and is good now.

Are the bots run by antis?

Worst I have seen it in a long time

Slower than the Bataan Death March !

Dial up...was fastah ..

Better now

Mass coronal ejection

I think this hot weather is messing mine up. I have Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T and usually at least one will work decent. But the last few days at times none work at all. I don't have a land line anymore, it was even worse esp. in wet weather. My digital TV antenna ain't that great, the advertisements come in good but not the show.

Hey Boss, check the flux capacitor.

Doing it again, my 'puter needs a death/destruction key.

Worse again now on my end. Timed out a couple times. It is only happening on this site for me.

It’s running a little slow.

Little might not be doing it justice....

Very slow

It’s slow

Why do people in "Bots"wana want to check up on us trappers?

The bots must die!

Because we’re all handsome looking devil’s.