On 26/09/2007, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
We must block people to keep the site running well... but using our web presence to attack people is generally unethical, and inappropriate even when they deserve it.
Is there a particular reason why user and user_talk need to be searchable? |
People needing to find things in them, basically. Which is the point of search in general :-)
User[-talk] is still project infrastructure space, not WikiFaceBook; it's used for useful and contentful communication, notes, drafts, lists, all manner of stuff (plus a lot of crap, yeah).
And until we have a much better internal search, people are going to keep using external search engines to find that stuff. We'd lose a lot of utility if we noindexed it all outright without having a decent replacement of our own.