He is an SEO spammer, and sadly this is how they all operate.
Bolstering links into "trusted" sites is a strategy to increase their
Google pagerank. Any sort of wiki is a target - and he's easily
identified by his amateurish spammy source code:
http://cl.ly/36Im
The simplest way to get rid of him would be to automatically add
rel="nofollow" to all external anchor tags inside the codex. To an SEO
spammer this eliminates any link value which he's hoping to generate,
so there's just no point continuing to do it :)
John
On 4 Nov 2010, at 16:42, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:
I've just tried a gentler approach. I've protected and locked the page
so that only admins can edit it. This presents a couple of problems
but I think we can handle them.
1. Can you forward the information to Jane or Matt about contacting
this guy (not sure exactly who is the "right" person but they will
know - if they aren't monitoring the discussion right now) so they can
let him know that his efforts are not appreciated and need to stop.
Maybe a bigger hammer will work. And maybe they can block his site or
IP or something, since this dude is seriously determined.
2. I'll post something on the translation mailing list about this page
to have them contact us if they have something to add or fix on the
page. It is a nuisance, but some of them may have admin status and can
edit in spite of us, which would be fine. We need to make sure that
the "leaders" of the translation group have admin access accordingly.
Thanks again for keeping an eye on this. What a pain. Amazing that
this guy is SO determined to spam, when there isn't a single WordPress
subject on his site, however, I don't want to give him credit for
determination. I want him to STOP as it is clearly a time waster for
all of us, especially you. Thanks so much for staying on top of this!
You rock!!!
Lorelle
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:43 AM, mrmist <[email protected]>
wrote:
This chap is still at it - linking off to tenuously related sites
from
WordPress in your language and adding a "maintained by" link to "www
dalefondos com"
Is it possible to add that site specifically to the Codex spam
filter?
--
mrmist
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