After reading in the Experts Exchange thread how the site let down their sophisticated pay-content defense mechanisms if the user agent identified itself as Googlebot, I got curious and changed my user agent string via Firefox' user-agent switcher add-on. The EE experience was not really spectacular but I got a nice surprise when i wanted to post again here afterwards. The post input box was gone. That is, I could still get to the "write new post" page and saw all the other controls - except the box where I was actually supposed to enter my post.
Am I missing something here? You were deliberately impersonating the Googlebot, you weren't able to post and you actually think it's a bug?
Has it occurred to you that maybe people who run forums don't want the Googlebot being able to accidentally post messages just by following links (which is after all what it does all day)?