SilenceMapBot

If you saw SilenceMapBot/1.0 in your server logs, this page explains what it is doing.

What it does

It reads public help-forum threads to find questions that have gone at least a week without a reply. We group the same problem asked in different places, write a short summary in our own words, and link back to every original thread.

How it behaves

• It identifies itself honestly in every request.
• It follows your robots.txt, including Crawl-delay, and never waits less than 3 seconds between pages.
• It reads only public pages. It never logs in, posts, or opens search, profile or account pages.
• It reads only a few list pages per section and only opens threads it hasn't seen.
• If a site returns a block or rate-limit response, it stops for that run.

Opting out

Add this to your robots.txt and the bot will stop reading your site:

User-agent: SilenceMapBot
Disallow: /