Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-07 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/9/6 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com wrote: Amazing how few people realise that we're also perfectly capable of blacklisting their websites, and will do so without hesitation should a spambot show up.  Heck, we give people a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-06 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com wrote: Amazing how few people realise that we're also perfectly capable of blacklisting their websites, and will do so without hesitation should a spambot show up.  Heck, we give people a hard time for putting in half a dozen of the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just...

2009-09-06 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 9/6/2009 12:09:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, stevag...@gmail.com writes: Just to hijack the thread...Once a site is blacklisted, is there any way to link to it? I had the situation recently that I wanted to reference a site (squidoo.com from memory) but it was

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/6 Risker risker...@gmail.com: 2009/9/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com What could possibly go wrong? http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo-tools/115582-wikipedia-linking-tool.html If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know! Whose doesn't?),

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-06 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: David Gerard wrote: I have a Google alert on Wikipedia. JOOI, how many alerts a day? Charles My weekly alerts give me about 20 hits. It's an interesting mixture of very obscure newspapers, reprints

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/6 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: David Gerard wrote: I have a Google alert on Wikipedia. JOOI, how many alerts a day? Several, usually a few hits each. I get news and blog hits (as part of my self-assigned task to keep up with the blog and media buzz). I get them

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/6 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Just to hijack the thread...Once a site is blacklisted, is there any way to link to it? I had the situation recently that I wanted to reference a site (squidoo.com from memory) but it was blacklisted. You could probably spell out the name and not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/6 geni geni...@gmail.com: Of course they have a wiki of their own: http://blackhat.wikia.com/wiki/Blackhat_Wiki w00t! Can't wait for the conspiracy theorists to get hold of that one. It's *obviously* part of the WMF office space deal. - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: What could possibly go wrong? http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo-tools/115582-wikipedia-linking-tool.html If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know! Whose doesn't?), that looks like just the forum for you

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/9/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know! Whose doesn't?), that looks like just the forum for you to get a topup from. Why do you still read SEO sites? They are all that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-05 Thread Risker
2009/9/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com What could possibly go wrong? http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo-tools/115582-wikipedia-linking-tool.html If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know! Whose doesn't?), that looks like just the forum for you