A while back I was wondering why certain stories kept getting negative karma points, other than genuinely sucking big time. Well, I think I’ve found the reason, Googlebots! Googlebots are Google’s web crawlers, and for some reason they seem to have been hitting the negative karma link a little more than the positive link on this site. In any case, what the bots think isn’t important to me!
Like Captain Kirk, I take full responsibility for the actions of my crew. This blog isn’t in the root of the webserver which is where a bot will be looking for the robots.txt file. The robots.txt file that is there didn’t have the exclusion directive needed to tell the bot not to assign karma points. I’ve fixed this now, so by tomorrow the spurious negative karma points should be a thing of the past, unless of course this stuff really sucks!:)