Document the need for intentional moderation

For shitty services that at least respect robots.txt

content/posts/fediverse-blocklists.gmi

@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ I pared that down to FediNuke.txt, which contains instances that were both reall
 
 I think if you're starting a well-moderated instance, Tier 0 is a decent place to start (that's why it's in the standard CSV format). You should add and remove entries as you see fit. If you're making a client and want to give it a built-in blocklist, or are looking for a good "default" blocklist, then FediNuke is a good option.
 
+However: if your instance grows larger (or if you intend to grow): you should be intentional about your moderation decisions, present and past. Your members ostensibly trust you, but not me. See the "trust but verify" section for for more information.
+
 ### Rationale for creating two subsets
 
 I used to just make a Tier-0 list. Later, I added the FediNuke list. Some people have asked why I don't just use one or the other; if Tier-0 was big enough to warrant FediNuke, why publish Tier-0 at all?

content/posts/fediverse-blocklists.md

@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ I pared that down to `FediNuke.txt`, which contains instances that were both rea
 
 I think if you're starting a well-moderated instance, Tier 0 is a decent place to start (that's why it's in the standard CSV format). You should add and remove entries as you see fit. If you're making a client and want to give it a built-in blocklist, or are looking for a good "default" blocklist: FediNuke is a good option.
 
+However: if your instance grows larger (or if you intend to grow): you should be intentional about your moderation decisions, present and past. Your members ostensibly trust you, but not me. See [the "trust but verify" section](#trust-but-verify) for for more information.
+
 ### Rationale for creating two subsets
 
 I used to just make a Tier-0 list. Later, I added the FediNuke list. Some people have asked why I don't just use one or the other; if Tier-0 was big enough to warrant FediNuke, why publish Tier-0 at all?

static/robots.txt

@@ -3,10 +3,14 @@ Disallow: /noindex/
 Disallow: /misc/
 
 # I opt out of online advertising so malware that injects ads on my site won't get paid.
-# You should do the same.
+# You should do the same. my ads.txt file contains a standard placeholder to forbid any
+# compliant ad networks from paying for ad placement on my domain.
 User-Agent: Adsbot
 Disallow: /
 Allow: /ads.txt
+Allow: /app-ads.txt
+
+# The next three are borrowed from https://www.videolan.org/robots.txt
 
 # > This robot collects content from the Internet for the sole purpose of # helping educational institutions prevent plagiarism. [...] we compare student papers against the content we find on the Internet to see if we # can find similarities. (http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
 #  --> fuck off.
@@ -28,6 +32,12 @@ Disallow: /
 User-Agent: BLEXBot
 Disallow: /
 
+# Providing Intellectual Property professionals with superior brand protection services by artfully merging the latest technology with expert analysis. (https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html/)
+# "The Internet is just way to big to effectively police alone." (ACTUAL quote)
+# --> fuck off.
+User-agent: CheckMarkNetwork/1.0 (+https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html)
+Disallow: /
+
 # Eat shit, OpenAI.
 User-agent: ChatGPT-User
 Disallow: /