Wait, this reminds of a south part episode which included underwear stealing gnomes (lol).
Their work plan:
Part 1: Stealing Underwear
Part 2: ??? (none of the gnomes knew what this is, they all expected that some other gnome does)
Part 3: Profit!
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.