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Originally Posted by Natch

If you don't mind my saying: "no kidding" or "so?"

you could say that about alot of the mods here, but each little addon or mod is like a lesson in the workings of php and vbulletin, so I find it interesting. I am sorry if it bothers you, but hopefully some other people will find it interesting or helpful.

Originally Posted by Natch

I can't think of a reason why I would want to block Legit spiders (those that respect robots.txt restrictions), and a spambot spider is likely as not to ignore meta tags and robots.txt anyway.

well, maybe you can't but obviously others can, and desire that function, thus the "rules." I did not invent the meta tags. You are correct that bots don't always play by the rules, but some do, and these are the ones that this hack was addressing.

Actually....ya know what - forget about the "no index" option... forget I even mentioned it- this hack was about the "no follow" so if you are planning on implementing the first hack I suggest adding the meta in the header, and I apologize for trying to toss in more info than was needed.