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by bkmartin 3952 days ago
You don't know that. He could be running a crawler that builds a service that ends up sending you very valuable traffic... Or you could be right... Not really enough info though.
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There is plenty of info, namely that the service doesn't exist now, and that we can recognize and allow its crawler if it ever becomes successful. It just doesn't make sense to allow every tom, dick and harry's crawler on the promise of some future benefit. That's like delivering and opening every spam e-mail in case there is a nugget in there.

The idea of saying yes to everything is comically explored by Jim Carey in the film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_%28film%29