<p>I believe they were blocked to try and stop robots killing the site, but given that the rules have been broken for six months now without seemingly causing problems may be don't need to them anymore?</p>

<p>What do you think <a href="https://github.com/Firefishy" class="user-mention">@Firefishy</a>?</p>

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