I think it is a horrible idea. Blocking search engines is evil. This site helps the search engines(allowing them to rank other results better) and the search e

I think it is a horrible idea. Blocking search engines is evil. This site helps the search engines(allowing them to rank other results better) and the search engines helps people (by providing the missing search functionality and allowing users to find useful content, on this site or elsewhere). Blocking traffic from MSN and Yahoo might bring less non-hackers to the site, but it would also introduce bias in the community that is not good. I don't want Microsoft hackers (presumably using MSN search) to be excluded from this community. I believe nowadays Google is only marginally better than Yahoo or Msn search. I don't need more hacker fashions. The last thing is, the problem with the crawlers and traffic load is easily solvable using robots.txt. Don't mess with the system more than you need.