On: Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines

[chaosmachine]

It appears to have been changed, just seconds ago. Now it reads:

  User-Agent: * 
  Disallow: /x?
  Disallow: /vote?
  Disallow: /reply?
  Disallow: /submitted?
  Disallow: /threads?

[Matt_Cutts → chaosmachine]

That seems like a nice middle ground--it should save server load, but search engines can still get to useful content.