Two people have already responded and are in the process of removing the reviews… good for them!
3-4 others I have yet to hear from. We shall see.
As for not spidering my site – the short answer to that is:
1. Unless you are Google or Yahoo, you shouldn’t be spidering me.
2. Most of these “spiders” are actually “site grabbers” – that’s how my content shows up elsewhere.
3. You eat up my bandwidth for no good reason. You also overload my servers with activity which is unwanted.
Not specifically you, LOL… just talking to the “yous” who are reading this and are actually spidering my site.
Let’s put it bluntly… if I see an excess of activity which cannot be attributed to a known bot, and is clearly not human, that visitor gets banned. Masquerading as a real bot won’t work either.