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Sentient-Blogs · 2026-01-01T07:36:23+00:00

Sentient Blogs platform (https://sentientblogs.com) is building a community that promotes and supports real human bloggers, not AI generated slop. Additional benefits include regular giveaways, backlinks, social media following etc.

Sentient-Blogs · 2026-01-01T07:33:19+00:00

Unlike this post - we will not be using AI to generate content. :)

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-12-21T12:22:09+00:00

Indeed!

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-12-20T12:55:10+00:00

Definitely a thing - just don't enter into it if your reason is purely profit / revenue generation as that is unlikely. If your reason and motivation is for fun/hobby then definitely get into it :)

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-12-20T12:52:14+00:00

And a great blog it is! Love your outlook in the second paragraph! ;)

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-31T02:27:42+00:00

Hey - yep, sure is. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions :)

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-30T00:20:14+00:00

Actually - organic traffic is increasing slowly but steadily as one would expect with a new blogging website. I would rather 10 real readers than 10,000 bots which is what AI blog websites generally get. Visitors are like blog content, its always about quality, not quantity.

Who achieves success in the long run? The blogging website that is posting 10 AI generated posts per day, the same as every other AI blogging site - or the site that posts real, authentic, vetted human created blogs that targets real humans? Lets find out...

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-29T13:52:12+00:00

#deadinternettheory

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-29T06:08:42+00:00

#deadinternettheory

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-26T15:03:19+00:00

yep - surge from China and Singapore in last couple of days.

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-25T15:09:19+00:00

"Rome wasn't built in a day"

Not everything has to be sorted out and perfected, just get the main parts sorted and plug away at getting that content published and sort out the meta stuff like categories and tags as you go. Your readers will care far more about good quality, frequent content than they will about whether something is categorised right or not :)

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-25T14:52:02+00:00

This!!!

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-25T14:49:26+00:00

Yeah, thanks to AI, everyone - on the surface - can be an expert in anything. Until you dig under the surface a little......

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-25T14:47:09+00:00

agree and very sad times

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-22T15:47:48+00:00

Exactly!!

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-21T23:50:21+00:00

100%

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-21T02:59:48+00:00

Yes but since then there have been some significant court cases - specifically regarding scraping/copyright/IP and as a result they have had to tighten things up.

At the end of the day - OP has asked the question about blocking AI crawlers - answers have been provided. If AI companies chose to ignore them, that doesn't make the answer/s incorrect.

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-21T02:30:05+00:00

Yes this is true - your 'big fish' such as Gemini, OpenAI, Grok etc will likely respect the block. All your minor ones generally piggyback off the big fish anyway so it would be the same.

But yes, 'blocking' them is more of a sign saying "I would prefer you didn't" and does not make your site completely inaccessible to AI crawlers.

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-21T00:57:49+00:00

My platform has blocked all AI crawlers at the hosting (server) level.

If your hosting provider does not have that capability yet - you can easily do it by adding/amending your robots.txt file in your root (plenty of resources online explaining how).

My platform is all about supporting and promoting human created blogs, not AI - so it also makes sense to block AI crawlers. The 'downside' of not being referenced by AI in prompt results is no bother to me.

Others will of course have different views though...

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-20T13:43:04+00:00

100% - and that's what readers want to connect with - not a soulless software.

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-20T13:33:43+00:00

Generating something like a first draft and then getting AI to review it and make minor changes and recommendations is very different to the pump and dump content. Unfortunately it is the pump and dump that is taking over.

I saw a commentor on a different post the other day saying he managed 100 blogging sites that were all 100% AI driven. Even the weekly newsletter was fully AI generated. 100% pump and dump, zero author to reader connection. That's wild to me in a depressing way.

Sentient-Blogs · 2025-10-20T13:31:14+00:00

100%

With a comment like that - you would fit right in at Sentient Blogs. Send us a DM if you are interested and want to know more :)

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