I think that's mostly because it captures the Chatterbox nodelet. Searching Google for a username usually brought up a few shreds of Chatterbox conversations. Uh, like it does now, too. (It probably won't in future.) Just search for a username that often appears in the Chatterbox, and select to view the cached result.

I'm not sure what the line 

# sorry, but misbehaved robots have ruined it for all of you.
means, exactly. I was hoping the person responsible for that line, or for the final decision to block indexing, would have put in his two cents here. Maybe he still will.

In reply to Re^2: Google indexes Perlmonks by bart
in thread Google indexes Perlmonks by bart

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