I wrote a little bot that watches for links that are rising quickly and submits them to archive.is just in case they&#x27;re not on servers that&#x27;ll be able to handle the load. I just did this to scratch an itch myself, but it&#x27;d probably be useful to others too.<p>I&#x27;m thinking about rewriting it so it works better, would it be helpful (and allowed) if I were to make it post a comment on any submissions that it notices have gone down after it archived them?<p>I didn&#x27;t see anything in the rules that talks about bots, but I also don&#x27;t see them used, so I figured I&#x27;d check.
Ask HN: Are bots allowed on HN?