<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lorelle,<div><br><div>I had the very unfortunate experience of working in the SEO industry for some years, and while I didn't enjoy any of it - I did learn about what search engines do and don't recognise and, much more importantly, what SEO engineers <i>think</i> search engines do and don't recognise.</div><div><br></div><div>rel="whatever" used to carry a lot of weight with search engines (that's a fact) and it still does carry some weight, but to a far lesser extent. This guy still thinks the "keywords" meta tag is effective, so it's pretty reasonable to assume that he isn't all that up to date on modern practices.</div><div><br></div><div>IP banning can be circumvented by proxy easily, you don't have to be smart for that. </div><div><br></div><div>Introducing a dynamic rel="nofollow" attribute on external links is easy and does no harm to the codex at all - personally, I would give it a try.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my 2c</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 4 Nov 2010, at 17:38, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>He keeps reopening accounts, so Thor has been ineffective with his<br>hammer. mrmist has had conversations with him asking him to stop and<br>nothing has stopped. nofollow is ineffective as it leaves the crap<br>while taking away nothing. Search engines stopped recognizing nofollow<br>a long time ago, if they ever really did.<br><br>Hopefully protecting the page so only admins can edit will stop it for<br>now but we need to know if there is an IP block or something similar<br>that will prevent his accessing the Codex, unless he's smart enough to<br>use a proxy. There are ways around everything, so protecting the page<br>from edits seems to be the best bet, as that is the one is he<br>targeting. If he starts on another page... sigh.<br><br>This has been a problem since the beginning but this person is beyond<br>persistent. It's a really strange case and kudos to mrmist for staying<br>on top of this above and beyond the call of duty.<br><br>Lorelle<br><br><br><br>On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John O'Nolan <<a href="mailto:john.wp@onolan.org">john.wp@onolan.org</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The simplest way to get rid of him would be to automatically add<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">rel="nofollow" to all external anchor tags inside the codex.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Or I can just go all Thor with the ban hammer and delete his account.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What's the page he's editing, or username, or what have you?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Otto<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wp-docs mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:wp-docs@lists.automattic.com">wp-docs@lists.automattic.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>wp-docs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wp-docs@lists.automattic.com">wp-docs@lists.automattic.com</a><br>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>