ayg wrote:

If you have a patch, please attach it here. I'll be willing to look at it and commit it if you test it and it works. For completeness, it might also be a good idea to exclude common known web crawlers by User-Agent.

leon wrote:

Fixed in SVN trunk, r34436.

This behavior would be inconsistent with everything else -- other bots (such as general search spiders) will still be hitting things without any such marker, and will be counted.

ayg wrote:

That's what I thought at first, but I reconsidered. It's at least closer to the "real" figure, so it's an improvement. As I indicated in comment #1, it would also be good to exclude known web crawlers. But if a bot is running (for whatever reason) that screen-scrapes every page once or more per day, say, that's obviously going to seriously reduce the usefulness of this count.

I do wonder about whether it's a good idea to fold this into the bot permission. It would probably be best not to make that a grab-bag of unrelated functionality; this is why we switched from group-based to permission-based controls to begin with. A separate permission seems better. Maybe we should rename the 'bot' permission to 'rc-hidable' or something.