BTuckerx2 wrote:... an example of a "registered" bot?
If you look at the bottom of the index page, you will see a list of different groups, all with slightly different colors. The only group you cannot list the members for is "Bots" which is in a light purple. Any time you see a username in that color, it is a Bot.
They are "registered" because they are in the list for the Bots group. They don't count as members of the forum. The only priviledge they have on the forum is to search the allowed areas of the forum for key search words.
One such Bot is "SEO Crawler". Most of them have something after their username, usually "[Bot]" but some have other information, such as "[Google]" and some, like the example I gave, have nothing.