From 994e31884de479e4750fff8f94238e2b73d7ebca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Helfman Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:44:25 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Web spiders should not be creating forum threads. --- static/html/robots.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/static/html/robots.txt b/static/html/robots.txt index 483e53c..aea46ec 100644 --- a/static/html/robots.txt +++ b/static/html/robots.txt @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ -# prevent bots from signing up for demo accounts +# prevent bots from signing up for demo accounts, etc. User-agent: * Disallow: /users/demo Disallow: /users/thanks Disallow: /users/thanks_download Disallow: /notebooks/export_csv/ Disallow: /notebooks/export_html/ +Disallow: /forums/general/create_thread +Disallow: /forums/support/create_thread # this crawler is completely broken and requests many invalid URLs User-agent: panscient.com