# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following
# content signals:
# (a) If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding
# use.
# (b) If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the
# corresponding use.
# (c) If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a
# corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
# permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use.
# The content signals and their meanings are:
# search: building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
# hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
# include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
# augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
# generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.
# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.
# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content
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Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
Allow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
# END Cloudflare Managed Content
# ============================================
# ROBOTS.TXT - GROUP BUILDER FORUMS
# ============================================
# --------------------------------------------
# SEARCH ENGINES - FULL ACCESS
# --------------------------------------------
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Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /
User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 2
Allow: /
# --------------------------------------------
# SOCIAL MEDIA - ALLOW (for link previews)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
# --------------------------------------------
# AI CRAWLERS - THROTTLED (hedge your bets)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /
# --------------------------------------------
# AI TRAINING BOTS - BLOCK (no benefit to you)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
User-agent: meta-webindexer
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /
# --------------------------------------------
# CONTENT SCRAPERS - BLOCK
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /
User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /
# --------------------------------------------
# DEFAULT - ALLOW WITH CRAWL DELAY
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5
Allow: /
# --------------------------------------------
# XENFORO - BLOCK NON-CONTENT PATHS (all bots)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /admin.php
Disallow: /find-new/
Disallow: /goto/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /lost-password/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /whats-new/
Disallow: /posts/*/bookmark$
Disallow: /posts/*/react
Disallow: /conversations/
Disallow: /*?order=
Disallow: /*?direction=
Disallow: /*&order=
Disallow: /*&direction=
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# SITEMAP
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Sitemap: /sitemap.xml