The compelling reason seems to be that some people are using it just to annoy others, not for any actual purpose. We have rules against extraneous posts–no post padding, no bumping threads more than once, no resurrecting old threads without new info, etc. It makes sense that pointless posts that just invoke the bot would fall in the same category.
My reaction is just to wait and see if people get tired of abusing the bot. Hopefully we’re smart enough for that. If not, then I would propose actually making some rules, but not banning it entirely. Only if people can’t follow the rules would you get rid of it.
I think that’s much better than accusing people who see potential problems with “not liking change.” People don’t like specific changes.
And, well, since the board still goes down, I’m kinda concerned the actual reason we moved hasn’t been fixed. We did move to their servers, right? So why do I find periods where we’re down for hours, where all pages return blank? And I’m not the only one to report these.
If it’s a scheduled down time, they should tell us.