David Gerard wrote:
On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Are those as normal hyperlinks (which should have a nofollow on) or as interwiki links? The latter may well not. Because spammers are very unlikely to be spamming for sites in the interwiki site list.
I'm glad I double checked this, it appears to have been turned on since last check. Applause to the programmers on this one.
It did its job of dealing with an immediate spammer problem, which is why Brion was so keen to switch it on.
That is, if there was *really* an immediate spammer problem to be had. I recall Brad Patrick's breathless essay about how inundated we're getting with spam, and then the G11 abomination occurred, but the actual necessity of such a reaction was never really introduced - we seem to be extremely trusting of those in the home office, don't we?
He like anyone has acknowledged that the present situation is far from ideal, but has suggested what coding people need to do to make it a bit finer-grained. So the answer is ... get coding.
I can barely make a piped link most days, let alone code. Not that I'm sure there's really a problem to be fixed...
-Jeff