Advertisers abused the hell out of us back in the early days of the Internet and we haven’t forgotten. Multiple Pop-ups, pop-unders and seizure-inducing banner ads.

If they simply stuck with small, basic, non-flashing banners, I could have handled it. But greed knows no limits with advertisers.

Microsoft Linux.

I would be grateful for shorter waiting times in their “emergency” department.

I’m guessing that once these bots have farmed enough karma, their owners will sell them to other people who will use them for advertising or propaganda.

Yeah, but if we made rich people pay their share of the tax burden, that would be “socialism” or something.