I've seen how to turn it on... but bots, turning off?

[Jwoodall]

What if I don't want the spider bots to appear as guests?

But I want legit guests to still appear as guests.. (cause I know I can turn off guests completely)

Thanks.

[tubedogg]

Spiders should be automatically recognized as such (those that we know about anyway) and shown as such, not as guests...aren't they?

[Jwoodall]

They are (if I turn on the spider recognition)...

but on the front page, it still shows 2 registered and 17 guests (or whatever).

How do I stop them from artificially bumping up that number?