Just to piggyback off this I had a similar thought. I read your post about the tool rental, got to the page and immediately saw random articles which unfortunately this AI age has got me to distrust that things are human written/curated when just presented with no context.

Seeing the rental and more community features would be best, then when you like the concept/community it makes sense to get invested in the posted articles because you've seen the site is active with people.

Love the idea, I really hope it all takes off!

Can you further elaborate on this robots.txt? I was under the impression most AI just completely ignores anything to do with robots.txt so you may just be hitting the ones that are maybe attempting to obey it?

I'm not against the idea like others here seem to be, I'm more curious about implementing it without harming good actors.

That's me reading Hacker News every day.

Degeneracy has been successfully normalized.