[WikiEN-l] Most cunningly disguised spam yet?

[Rob]

On 2/2/07, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like Guy Chapman is definitely reading this list and is active on
> Wikipedia --
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:%24_London_Apartments&diff=next&oldid=105016776.
> He still hasn't answered my polite e-mails, though, so I have to conclude
> he's just being arrogant and rude.
>
> It also appears that the Stalinist hive-mind has a "flexible" definition of
> what constitutes "spam".  A few "nofollow" links to London apartment pages
> on a User page = spam.  Nearly 3,000 links to a for-profit Google AdSense
> funded operation that gets exemptions from "nofollow" and often points to
> wikis that have, at best, two active editors in the past month and/or less
> than 5 edits overall in a month = not spam.  Reporting on this "not spam" =
> blockable offense from an admin who ignores e-mails.
>
> If you Wikipedians are proud of this type of work, keep it up.  It only
> generates MORE of an urge to expose the hypocrisy.

If you mail was anything like this one, I'd ignore it too.

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