Yeah, that’s a strong option, which is why I went around checking + linking all the robots.txt files for the websites I listed above :)
In my other post I discuss the tradeoffs of the different approaches one in particular is that it would be somewhat clumsy to implement post-by-post filters via robots.txt, whereas user-agent filtering can do it just fine.
I’m not sure I’m imagining the same thing as you, but as a draft solution, how about a
robots.txt?Yeah, that’s a strong option, which is why I went around checking + linking all the robots.txt files for the websites I listed above :)
In my other post I discuss the tradeoffs of the different approaches one in particular is that it would be somewhat clumsy to implement post-by-post filters via robots.txt, whereas user-agent filtering can do it just fine.