Yep, they are doing a good job at killing the community here.
Wraggster is completely aware of this yet chooses to keep them. Even every mod I have spoken to hates them and have told wraggster how they feel.
All I can think of is having all these threads (even though no one reads nor responds to them) somehow increases some automated ranking that increases advertising revenue.
It's a pity; he built a great site and now he's choosing to run it into the ground. It's his site and he's certainly entitled to do it, doesnt make the choice any less ****ing stupid.
Surely when there is nothing but the spam bots (as opposed to the current approx. 10:1 ratio of spam to actual user posts) then the site will get less ad-clicks than it does now.
I also think its extremely disrespectful to all the homebrew authors who release here. Homebrew sites exist because of their hard work and the discussion that it creates. Drowning out actual news/discussion for financial reasons (what possible other reason could there be for the bots) would have to make them feel it would be better to release just on their own site, or just somewhere else.
Everyone who cares for the future of this site needs to start making/posting in threads about the need to get rid of them. Perhaps if there are more posts in those threads than everywhere else on the site (if enough people care) put together, he may get the message.
When they first came in I made a cpl and was disappointed by the lack of responses. If its just me ranting on about it whenever the topic arises (like I'm doing now) then it's easy to ignore. When almost everyone is united in opposition to them its much harder to do so.
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