[wp-forums] Request to edit .ORG profiles

[Mark Ratledge]

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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