[loramin]

You've got me: I thought anyone coding a tool that hits the wiki would also understand how requests and servers work ... and with that understanding, wouldn't still write their code in a way that hurts the wiki.

So yeah, I'm a terrible person/poster for assuming other programmers aren't terrible people (and having to assume because I don't know every tool and how it's coded).

As for Rogean not being able to block the tool ... there are ways. Tools have patterns and make requests with those patterns. Again, I still have no idea if PigParse has even contributed, meaningfully, to the wiki issues ... but if it does, I'll personally volunteer to write code to block it from accessing the wiki ... if Rogean can't deal with it himself (I strongly suspect he can).

P.S. Also ... where did I ever rule out the idea that the tool could be responsible? Quote me, because all I see are words like "imagine" and "hope".

I truly don't understand why people on this forum need to attack others for what they imagine they've said. I've actually said plenty of things worth arguing over: pick one of them to start a fight over if you just want to argue with an Internet stranger.