Blunt Banhammer Blocks Basic Bots Ballistically

The author shares their experience of successfully reducing bot traffic on their website by over 80% using a simple trap mechanism. They describe creating a honeypot directory, modifying robots.txt and .htaccess files, and provide sample code for implementation. The approach, while basic, effectively blocks unwanted automated access, highlighting the importance of site security against bot traffic. The author encourages learning and improving upon their method, sharing it under an AGPL v3 license.