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did they say when they implemented it?
No clue. I asked but didn't get an answer on that one. I'll have to ask again.
This is just freaking annoying because it makes no sense. And my tooth hurts.
ETA: I kind of wish we would start getting error messages again. While they're watching. It's like when you have a noise in your car and you take it to the mechanic...and it goes away.
Not only is it not erring, but it seems way faster than usual. Is this anyone else's impression?
ita, can you tell me or email me and let me know how you blocked spiders? Spiders seem to be the only possibility anyone can come up with for last night's insanity.
Maybe the board has achieved sentience and is trying to drive us crazy.
I'm thinking it's Moloch the Corrupter.
Hey Kristen, you still need that -ma? Because there's some on the way, just FYI. t /natter
As I understand it, normal spider blocking does not really block spiders. You can put a spider.txt or some such (I forget the exact name of the file) in a directory and well behaved spiders such as those from google and most major search engines will go away. But this does not block them, and malicious or simply ill behaved spiders and bots will igore it.
What DCJ said.
robots.txt, in fact.
We can only hope the 'bots play nice.
So, in effect, robots and spiders and...bots, oh my, come in and shake signs at us, going, "Ooga Booga!"
And then we hold up a sign that says, "Sorry spider-bot-things, we're blocking you."
This is how it works?
Umm - yeah. But google and the legit ones will. It is like a no-trepassing sign. Most people won't enter the posted property. But a sign, by itself, keeps out nobody who chooses to ignore it.