the relative privacy and freedom from slander is more important. The level of our discussions on this pages is --perhaps necessarily--really not fit for widespread public awareness. . What sort of a search is it that cannot be performed with the current internal facility and would be an essential function?
On 9/26/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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