[hatchet]

I just had an interesting hit on my website.. from www.turnitin.com which is a plagiarism detection system.
This is what the stats show
TurnitinBot/1.5 http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.htm
I'm not sure how I feel about that.. it seems to be a good idea for high schools and colleges. Just something I've never seen before.
This post should probably be in a different category but didn't know which one.

[Anonymous]

Huh. First I heard about them. I personally don't like non-SE bots crawling my sites, but I'm too lazy to actually ban the IP.
They got kinda a Big Brother attitude, don't they?

[Shalinara]

They hit us about every six weeks or so. I look at it as a good thing. It means the content on the site is drawing attention.

[jeremy]

why would it matter if someone or something is visiting your site. Unless the "bot" started causing problems with bandwidth usage or something who cares?

[hatchet]

Relax jeremy...
Who said anything about it mattering?
All I said was it was interesting

I just had an interesting hit on my website.. from www.turnitin.com which is a plagiarism detection system.

[jeremy]

i was more going off johns comment.. i think he is paranoid?

[hatchet]

hehe.. maybe I'm the paranoid one..
My comment about "I'm not sure how I feel about that"... pertained to what if they are checking my stuff for plagiarism...haha..

[Shalinara]

Actually, it gets pulled into their database so they're checking to see if anyone is plagiarizing you, too. It's used by a lot of teachers. Scan in the students paper, find it on the web, instant "F".

[jeremy]

of course.. if you don't want a bot to go somewhere just htaccess it.. can even put guest login details on the page if u like.. SE wont think.. oh, login details.. and htaccess woopee.. lol. not yet anyway.. maybe oneday.

[hatchet]

Yep to Shalinara.. i put that comment before I actually read the rest of their FAQ's .. not a bad idea though.. probably pretty useful.

I thought about that jeremy but I never plagiarised in college so I don't want anyone else to either.. although I don't know what they want off my site..haha.

[PhantomDarkness]

my school uses turnitin.com. pretty good site :)

[Anonymous]

i was more going off johns comment.. i think he is paranoid?

Paranoid? Where did you get that?

[Shalinara]

i was more going off johns comment.. i think he is paranoid?

Paranoid? Where did you get that?

http://www.webmaster-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=654

Yeah! Where'd you get that?!? He's not paranoid. the whole world really IS out to get him! :lol:

j/k John

[hatchet]

hahaha