[WikiEN-l] a few new wrinkles in the external link issue

[David Gerard]

On 22/01/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

> > Other blogs aren't a-okay, but it's simply not possible to block all blogs.
> > Personally, I will allow blogs as sources when its contents can clearly be
> > attributed to a notable individual. 99% of MySpace members isn't remotely
> > notable at all.

> So because most blogs aren't useful, we'll simply assume they all
> aren't.  Hey, most websites aren't useful, either, why not disable all
> external linking altogether?


Because there were enough MySpace blogs in particular being used as
spam links to be a discernible individual problem, with no known cases
where they were the right link and just the MySpace page itself
wasn't.

What actual (non-hypothetical examples) do you have where the blog is
an apposite link rather than the MySpace page itself?


- d.