Karma event plugin counts search engines?

[CapriSkye]

just a quick question, does the karma plugin's view count increase when search engines visit the extended entries?
thanks

[garvinhicking]

Yes, the karma plugin counts the hits to webpages. No matter where they are from.

Regards,
Garvin

[Evil Azrael]

This bug is annoying. Any idea to fix that problem?

I put Disallow : /index.php into my robots.txt to disallow bots doing karma votes, and i think crawlers will still find every content as every is being reachable with those rewritten URLs. Am i correct?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This bug is annoying. Any idea to fix that problem?

You could start to compile a huge list of HTTP_USER_AGENTs for webbots and then patch the karmaplugin to bail out if any of those matches the current user agent

I put Disallow : /index.php into my robots.txt to disallow bots doing karma votes, and i think crawlers will still find every content as every is being reachable with those rewritten URLs. Am i correct?

The karma plugin also counts a hit when people come to a rewritten url. So that won't help at all, I'm sorry.

Best regards,
Garvin

[Evil Azrael]

ok, but the votes won´t be corrupted as they are done by the index.php which is being blocked. is that right?


mal so nebenbei, kann man dich mal in jabber belästigen? geht nicht um s9y.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

ok, but the votes won´t be corrupted as they are done by the index.php which is being blocked. is that right?

Votes are executed via javascript, so robots should not be able to "click" them at all!

mal so nebenbei, kann man dich mal in jabber belästigen? geht nicht um s9y.

Mit jabber bin ich nicht so häufig online und hab auch öfter probleme, aber ICQ sollte gehen

Regards,
Garvin

[Evil Azrael]

Looks like the MSN bot can process certain JS scripts. I don´t know how else he could execute voting.