On 1/23/07, Sage Ross sage.ross@yale.edu wrote:
I like this one: http://www.smomashup.com/how-wikipedia-killed-the-internets/2007/01/23/
The complaint is that, once the (barely notable) entry on [[Social Media Optimization]] stops giving PageRank value to the blog-post origin of the term, then the Wikipedia article will surpass the blog entry as the first Google result for "social media optimization". Breaks my heart.
It's not quite that simple. It is true that our actions are likely to be mildly dissruptive on the wider net but even our more power mad admins generaly don't think we should be policeing the web.
We are not a links directory which is one of the problems with various ideas to selectively turn off no follow. If we do that we are basicaly admiting we are a links directory and we would gain very little for doing so.