It's very annoying to have to remember to hit "reply to all." Can list
admins fix this, please?
Thomas Dalton wrote:
1) If
we're going to blindly attach "nofollow" to all the external
links, why are we allowing Wikia links to be propped up artificially?
Are we in the business of conflict of interest now?
Looks like Wikia is treated as an interwiki link, which assumes it's
part of the same project. I'd report it as a bug, if I were you.
I'm hoping that the nofollow is temporary/abandoned in that time.
MySpace blogs are never a reliable source for anything
other than a
MySpace blog, and they are virtually never notable, so I don't see a
problem.
This will be the last time I repeat it here to save people's inboxes -
"virtually never" doesn't mean we ignore the "sometimes,"
especially on
the technical side.
3) Did you folks know we have a bot that reverts
links that are
arbitrarily considered spam? I didn't until today.
[[User:Shadowbot1]]. I convinced him to post the blacklist where we
could see it, and while some (most?) are useful, others are pretty
screwy, and I'm not sure this is helpful in the long run.
I knew, but I've never looked at the blacklist. I've just trusted
it... was I wrong to?
Trust but verify, at the least.
I don't think there is much if any collateral
damage from our
anti-spam efforts. I can remember one problem with ShadowBot removing
a link that it shouldn't have, and I think it was resolved by fixing
the blacklist (I don't remember exactly, I wasn't actually involved to
a great extent).
Between the heavy-handed use of G11, having a blacklist BOT,
blacklisting an arbitrary blog site on the blacklist, I think there's a
lot more collateral damage than we're owning up to.
-Jeff
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