On 22/01/07, John Doe phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
regarding this HAVE YOU NO CLUE what spam is? there have been massive attacks by spammers recently there was one user that added 142 links to the same site, the reason? to increase the sites rank in google.
Good lord. What a novel idea of theirs. I can't believe I've never seen that happen before; obviously we here have been sheltered from the hurly-burly of real editing life for years.
as for blog, myspace.com the reason is simple there is no need to link to jimbobs blog as per my reasoning at WT:EL
This sounds awfully like the "reliable sources" policy that arbitrarily decreed Usenet could never be cited. Sure, we're mot in the business of randomly linking to people's blogs, and we never have been. That doesn't stop the fact that, occasionally, someone we would consider reliable may post some information there we would like to source.
(Indeed, one of our *explicit recommendations* to people we have articles on is that if there is contradictory information about them floating around, or basic information which isn't widely known, they should make sure to mention it on their personal site somewhere...)