> Oh, and of course, they don't just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not. They also don't give a single flying fuck about robots.txt, because why should they.
Their self righteous indignation and specificity of the pretend subject of that indignation precludes any doubt about intent.
This guy made a whole public statement that is verifiably false. And then tried to toddler logic it away when he got called out.
What is the criteria of an intentional lie, then? Admission?
The author responded:
>denschub 2 days ago [–]
>the robots.txt on the wiki is no longer what it was when the bot accessed it. primarily because I clean up my stuff afterwards, and the history is now completely inaccessible to non-authenticated users, so there's no need to maintain my custom robots.txt
> Lying requires intent to deceive
Since when do we ask people to guess other people's intent when they have better things to show, which is called evidence?
Surely we should talk about things with substantiated matter?
Because there’s a meaningful difference between being wrong and lying.
There’s evidence the statement was false, no evidence it was a lie.
When someone says:
> Oh, and of course, they don't just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not. They also don't give a single flying fuck about robots.txt, because why should they.
Their self righteous indignation and specificity of the pretend subject of that indignation precludes any doubt about intent.
This guy made a whole public statement that is verifiably false. And then tried to toddler logic it away when he got called out.
That may all be true. That still doesn’t mean they intentionally lied.
What is the criteria of an intentional lie, then? Admission?
The author responded:
>denschub 2 days ago [–]
>the robots.txt on the wiki is no longer what it was when the bot accessed it. primarily because I clean up my stuff afterwards, and the history is now completely inaccessible to non-authenticated users, so there's no need to maintain my custom robots.txt
Which is verifiably untrue:
HTTP/1.1 200 server: nginx/1.27.2 date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:37:20 GMT content-type: text/plain last-modified: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:52:00 GMT etag: W/"1c-62204b7e88e25" alt-svc: h3=":443", h2=":443" X-Crawler-content-encoding: gzip Content-Length: 28
User-agent: * Disallow: /w/
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