stop spammers - no follow?

dtw · 2005-04-04 10:44:36

Wesnoth Wiki wrote:

Spammer Alert
we use rel="nofollow" on all external links
so you will not get any Google ranking from spamming these pages

Could we not use this too?

rasat · 2005-04-04 13:08:22

How does it work?

dtw · 2005-04-06 03:03:02

i thought you'd know!

I'll find out...

Pierre · 2005-04-06 11:16:06

rasat wrote:

How does it work?

You just add this value to every outgoing link. Search-Engines will ignore those links. So there is no reason for spammers to spam aymore ;-)

dtw · 2005-04-06 11:29:38

i figured it was something simple - is it a scriptable fix or wiki type specific do we think?

phrakture · 2005-04-06 15:31:39

you could use some sort of injection at the server side... I'm not really sure... maybe cactus would know better...

cactus · 2005-04-06 15:38:35

It would likely involve modifying the phpbb codebase. I do not know offhand how many different function calls actually deal with links.
As for it dissuading spammers, if the spammers do not know it has been added, would it indeed dissuade them? I doubt they would know inherently that nofollow is being used. I can see how it would not help them, but if they don't know, then would it effect them?

dtw · 2005-04-07 08:38:09

um - it was more for the wiki mate not phpbb

cactus · 2005-04-07 09:10:50

oh
:oops:

i3839 · 2005-04-07 17:10:58

Spammer Alert
we use rel="nofollow" on all external links
so you will not get any Google ranking from spamming these pages

I think that is for spambots that add their own links to the wiki or something, to increase the Google rank of those urls. As long as Arch isn't bothered by those it isn't really needed, but having it won't hurt.

dtw · 2005-04-08 09:32:24

well - it is bothered by spam bots isn't it?! That's why i suggested it!

i3839 · 2005-04-09 00:59:17

No, it doesn't bother them, but if a certain wiki implementation adds nofollow to all urls then it isn't interesting for certain people to make a spambot which abuses those wiki to add unrelevant urls to it. Google's ranking works by countingthe number of cross references, so that's why spamming urls on wiki pages is done by certain idiots.

At least this is how I understand it.

dtw · 2005-04-09 09:59:20

hold on - rasat - was or wasn't the wiki being spammed by bots from asia?

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