I think the immediate term action is to viciously block all crawlers.

Writing a blog yes, feeding the beast no.

This sounds like a nice principled stance, but you won't get any traffic with this approach. That's demotivating - to me blogging is a tight balance of exploration, learning, improving and feedback. I'm not able to write without considering how this impacts the reader - removing all readers breaks the process for me.

Yeah, everyone went on "blocking all crawlers" end result being half of internet inaccessible over vpns. Good job, people.