Players' Disconnect Message Without a Join Message. Are these bots or actual players?

Hello all, I’ve recently noticed many new players joining my server but instead of the message “player joined the server for the first time” showing up first, it shows “player left the server” followed by the “player joined the server for the first time”. These players never actually show up in game and don't receive an achievement when they first join due to them getting armor when they first join automatically. All the other regular players have never had issues and their messages show up correctly. Are these players bots? I’ve added a screenshot of how the console looks when a player usually joins and another screenshot of how these other players are showing up as.
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Requested by kaludi#0
Paddyk45
Paddyk452y ago
bots checking if server is whitelisted/cracked
Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
probably cannot know for sure without ip/username list
Paddyk45
Paddyk452y ago
you can always check https://abuseipdb.com
Kaludi
KaludiOP2y ago
That's the strange part, other users show an IP when they log in, but when these users login it only shows their username and UUID, I think it probably is just bots
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Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
can you please send me a full list of the unsernames? or atleast a few more than two
Kaludi
KaludiOP2y ago
Sure, here are just a few:
TwitcherMicher
justkig
notoofy
yhoaa
Dymic
titanmenace
ErikThorson
Yusu_za
TwitcherMicher
justkig
notoofy
yhoaa
Dymic
titanmenace
ErikThorson
Yusu_za
All from the past ~2 days
Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
yep just confirmed every one of these is one of my bots they don't do anything bad
Kaludi
KaludiOP2y ago
Oo got it, just wanted to check they weren't actual players that were not able to join the server due to a plugin or something, thanks 🙂
Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
if you do want to opt out of the bots, just ban the ip, that should solve it
Kaludi
KaludiOP2y ago
I don't mind it, but as I said these bots don't show an IP address in the console, so even if I wanted to ban the IP I'm not able to
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Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
i have literally no idea too why they don't show it
Kaludi
KaludiOP2y ago
Strange, using the /seen command shows the player's last used IP address and it doesn't show with this command either for the bots, oh well
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Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
mhh idk maybe because im not doing a complete login i break the connection after receiving the game profile packet from the server so i disconnect very early on
Kaludi
KaludiOP2y ago
Yeah that's probably why, the players are supposed to first join in a world called "Spawn" so it doesn't give the server time to tp them either since they haven't officially joined the server, thanks 🙂
Deleted User
Deleted User2y ago
np

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