[wp-forums] Request to edit .ORG profiles

[Chip Bennett]

I think the assumption that the WordPress *support* forums should care or
bother with SEO is wrong. The support forum exists to bring WordPress users
together with WordPress community volunteers, to help solve user problems.
The point about the support forums being linked in the WP admin area is
relevant because it means that the support forum doesn't need SEO to
accomplish its purpose.

I don't think forum mods should waste their time "fixing" support forum
content on the basis of SEO - whether the SEO impacts the forum itself, or
the site of the user who added the content. Forum mods' time would be
better-spent reiterating to users that the purpose of posting in the forums
is to ask/answer questions about user problems with WordPress, and not to
drive up one's SEO.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> it's great to see that you've become such an SEO expert all of a sudden.
> But tell me, if that would prevent WordPress from getting issues, ever, how
> do you think large news sites and other HUGE brands got burned in recent
> updates? Oh, right, Google got smarter than footer links.
>
> Sorry but it's going to take more than this to convince anyone.
>
> About your remark: re accountability and history: true. We'd need that.
>
> Best
> Joost
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Mark Riley <mark at automattic.com> wrote:
>
> > On 16 July 2014 12:17, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And that's where you're wrong. If nothing happens, there IS a long term
> > > risk for wordpress.org's SEO.
> > >
> >
> > << snipped old stuff >>
> >
> > Given that the .org forums are linked from every WP blog I doubt we need
> to
> > be running scared.
> >
> > I would absolutely oppose any editing unless we have a history and
> > notifications of all edited posts.
> > To allow this sort of editing without full accountability would be a
> > disaster.
> >
> > M.
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