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

[geni]

On 1/24/07, Parker Peters <parkerpeters1002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a stupid suggestion.
>
> Code it so that *NEW* links are nofollow by default (thus stopping
> linkspammers from being rewarded for linkspamming), but allow a process
> (request to an admin or something) whereby a link can simply be followed and
> then the "nofollow" tag removed from it if it's verified to not be a spam
> link.
>
> Wouldn't that be better than uniformly tagging all links Nofollow?
>

DMOZ is that way

> Unless of course the goal isn't really about stopping spammers, but about
> trying to game Google's algorithm because someone got jealous that someone
> else's site came up before en-wikipedia's in a google search somewhere.
>

Somewhat unlikely. Do you enjoy makeing random acusations like that?

> I'll note that Nofollow was uniformly rejected by the community in previous
> discussions.

not quite true.

In any case I'm trying to keep my notes up to date. Are you still
trying to pretend to be an admin or not?

-- 
geni