Now my rage has ended... for today, I'm going to quieten down in a corner... Sorry for anyone OTHER than the people that don't follow the rules the think they got raged at by me.
Finally finding about some of the bots that are flooding the users online - bytespider apparently is a huge offender here - ignores robots.txt and comes in from a ton of different IPs
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.