[wp-forums] Request to edit .ORG profiles

[Joost de Valk]

He can disavow, but it's not in WP.org's best interest to leave those links
up: it's spam, whichever way you look at it. It means our internal search
will bring up that stuff as well, as soon as we don't use Google. Cleaning
up spam is not a task that's full of glory, I realize that, but in the long
run, it *really* is better if we get rid of it.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com>
wrote:

> if the OP's domain is unlockiphone.co.uk, he does have lots of links from
> spam profiles. More than likely is own doing.
>
> He should know or realize that he can do a disavow list with GWT.
>
> --songdogtech
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Joost de Valk wrote:
>
> > LOL he's requesting the editing as part of a link cleanup because Google
> > has penalised his site. He has probably had those links created for him
> by
> > an agency where he bought links himself.
> >
> > The only interesting bit here is to see whether those profiles were
> created
> > from the same IP, and if other profiles were created from that IP too,
> > could be an easy purge in that case.
> >
> > If needed I'll hereby volunteer to clean up profiles on WP.org if someone
> > gives me the appropriate rights.
> >
> > Best
> > Joost
> >
> > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Putting aside the fact that forum moderators can't edit .ORG profiles
> (not
> >> forum profiles, those we can edit) I do not think this request should be
> >> entertained.
> >>
> >> https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-some-fake-
> >> and-spammy-profiles?replies=10&view=all
> >>
> >> Part of the reason posts are not edited except in extreme cases is that
> >> editing posts on requests can be a full time job. One that would
> >> suck-wind-loudly at that.
> >>
> >> Would someone like to chime in on that topic? I've already explained
> that
> >> SERP is not a good reason to generate that work load. I don't want to
> argue
> >> with that member but I do think that topic should be closed with a "I'm
> >> sorry but those profiles will not be edited for those reasons."
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jan Dembowski
> >> https://blog.dembowski.net/
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