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philipwhiuktoday at 12:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think the immediate term action is to viciously block all crawlers.

Writing a blog yes, feeding the beast no.


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ArcHoundtoday at 1:04 PM

This sounds like a nice principled stance, but you won't get any traffic with this approach. That's demotivating - to me blogging is a tight balance of exploration, learning, improving and feedback. I'm not able to write without considering how this impacts the reader - removing all readers breaks the process for me.

lstoddtoday at 1:54 PM

Yeah, everyone went on "blocking all crawlers" end result being half of internet inaccessible over vpns. Good job, people.

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