Thought I should point something out. Followgen seems to be a favorite-spam service.

Someone posted an article a few days ago about how to do this yourself and was slammed pretty hard for the technique (though I tried to defend it a bit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6147210

>Basically their attitude towards paying for my software was "fuck that". But obviously gamers are willing to spend on some software (like Steam).

I think you're conflating "gamers" with 13 year old boys who play too much xbox. They probably pirate all their PC software.

This was interesting, but I would have liked a little more detail. I didn't understand how they were abusing the system until the screenshot and then it was over. How much damage did they do initially? How effective was the blocking?