In a message dated 4/28/2008 11:52:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, morven@gmail.com writes:
Page blanking and oversight are generally only done AFTER problems are identified. Marking our non-product pages as non-indexable reduces the likelihood of problems in the first place - what generally bothers someone is not that things are written about them but that they show up on the first page of Google results.>>
----------------- It is in the very nature of the internet that you discover problems after they've been typed out. I mean I don't even understand this issue. We in order to preempt a few specific, isolated cases, want to blank a few *million* pages of data?
That doesn't sound like over kill?
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WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
It is in the very nature of the internet that you discover problems after they've been typed out. I mean I don't even understand this issue. We in order to preempt a few specific, isolated cases, want to blank a few *million* pages of data?
That doesn't sound like over kill?
But you misstate the situation in two major ways.
First, we are not talking about a few specific, isolated cases. We are talking about a pervasive problem that is embarrassing to the project and which does not reflect well on our community.
Second, no one is talking about blanking any pages at all, much less millions.
--Jimbo