[wp-forums] Request to edit .ORG profiles

[Half-Elf on Tech]

They're all marked rel="nofollow"

Joost, you're smarter about that than I am, but I thought that meant 
Google'd ignore it? Or is that only for WPORG?

Yes it would be nice if we could delete that garbage but it's a separate 
system. I can't think of how to safely automate it either, since Good 
People Get Bozo'd from time to time.

Joost de Valk wrote:
>
> 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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