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

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Fri Jan 26 06:55:55 UTC 2007


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Parker Peters 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.

Hey, remember when I said that would be welcome and people interested in
this should come help out?

I'm awaiting your patch.

But I guess it's easier to spread wild conspiracy theories then to get
involved.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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