GMLscripts.com

xot

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 1,240

Enthusiasm

Some "enthusiastic" users have been spidering GMLscripts.com without respecting the robots.txt file. I am not talking about search engines that follow the rules, I am talking about people who download the entire website every time a few new scripts are added -- you know who you are. I don't like spiders and bots sucking up bandwidth, but ignoring the robots.txt file is not only rude and unethical, it is destructive. False clicks artificially inflate the script usage statistics of the site. That means I have to correct nearly 200 script counters every time someone runs a misbehaving bot. Please don't abuse this site, a lot of time and money goes into running it. If I decide it is not worth the effort because a few knuckleheads can't behave themselves, GMLscripts.com will disappear forever. Nobody wants that, so cool it with the bots, shenanigans will not be tolerated. Thank you.

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