David Gerard wrote:
Personally my favourite bit was the whining from the search engine spammers.
Such an *exquisite* sense of entitlement they have.
That response *really* weakened any opposition voices, which was frustrating, but I sitll find it to be really bad:
1) Wikia links, last check, still don't have nofollow attached. This means that the only links the Foundation allows to be noticed are ones that are linked to the Foundation in a personell sense. How convinenent.
2) With nofollow attached to non-Wikia external links, that means that non-Wikipedia links drop and Wikipedia links rise in Google. While we don't have ads (yet) on Wikipedia, we do have a revenue sharing plan with Answers.com, which also gets high rankings. So hey, what do you know, more financial help for the Foundation while we axe out the sources that we use to make the articles to help our Google rankings.
I mean, it comes across as horribly underhanded, especially since the community wasn't even approached about it.
-Jeff