On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:38:34PM +0900, Evan Martin wrote:
Certainly, it's not wikipedia's responsibility to make the problem of web search easier. But part of the goal was also to let webmasters help remove the incentive for spamming. On random blogs, spam is mostly just annoying to the owner of the blog and its readers; on wikipedia, spam lowers the quality of the content.
I have news for you: on a blog, it can be more than just a mild annoyance as well. It can substantively reduce content quality, eat up the blogger's time with moderation tasks, and so on.