No consensus supported here. I think a gripes forum would elevate the
present robot hysteria, contributing much more heat than light.
People seem to assume that badly behaved robots are sucking away bandwith
horribly and tying up servers. In almost three years of having various
servers on-line, I have only seen one robot tie up a server so much that it
was a problem. That was one that was being used by someone who had no idea
what he was doing, who didn't pay any attention to any guidelines anyway.
We've been selling a spider for a couple of years and had very few
complaints about its operation.
In summary, most of the complaints about robots are theoretical, not real,
so that a gripes forum would just amplify useless speculations about what
would happen if everyone ran bad robots. More to the point, the people who
will cause problems are the ones who aren't paying attention, anyway.
Nick