From what I've heard, Lensman kills most/all spiders that ever hit GFY, but then, I'm not a big money program owner.... so I'd have no idea if there's special provisions for them to do those things.
But yes, those contests / post bots do take their toll. But not that much. There are much worse on bigger boards and those boards don't suffer the same way.
From what I understand, GFY's issues are 100% hardware related.
