This is a handy and simple tip for those needing to add 100's of bots at a time. You need access to your cpanel / phpmyadmin
1. view your database
2. click on phpbb_bots (or what ever yours is)
3. Browse structure
4. Click to edit which ever bots you need to mass add.
5. Cut the list of IP address in the 'pending_ip' sextion
6. Paste them into the 'bot_ip' section.
7. Save and close
This saves you having to manually add them all one by one in the acp/config/ bots management.