I agree. While spammers are so pathetic they will do anything for page views, I have to admire (and detest) their ability to adapt in order to spread their nonsense.
Anything that slows them down, even in the slightest degree, is something I support and recommend. > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:24:54 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Applying nofollow only to external links added in > revisions that are still unpatrolled > > On 11/18/2013 04:39 AM, Happy Melon wrote: > > I'm sure spam directed at, say, enwiki, would get very subtle very quickly > > if spammers thought there was a real chance of it being able to use > > enwiki's pagerank weight. Don't underestimate spammers' ability to learn > > and adapt. > > Also +1; pagerank is a valuable thing and Wikipedia has lots of it. > Spammers would be quick to find ways to cheat, lie and manipulate their > way into tapping into it. > > Right now, we are plagued with the spammers that are too desperate or > stupid to care; if we turned nofollow off, they would all descend upon > us like a plague of locusts. > > -- Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
