[WikiEN-l] Gosh darn it, those spammers^Wmarketers will show us what for

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:33:48 +0100, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm"
<macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:

>I don't agree with the method, but I certainly can agree with the sentiment.
>It's totally inappropriate to punish all the good links that made Wikipedia
>great just to get rid of a few spammers.

In what way is it punishing them?  Authoritative sites don't need our
help to get their pagerank up, and if being linked from the world's
largest information resource is not enough of an endorsement then what
is?

Guy (JzG)
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