[wp-forums] Request to edit .ORG profiles

[Mark Riley]

“Our (as a web community) own bloody fault? Yes.”

NO.

Google introduced no-follow as their “This will beat the spammers into
submission” solution and it failed just as a lead balloon would.
This is 100% Google’s fault.

The more sites bow to Google’s whims the more empowered they will feel and
the more they become the standard.

Posts should stay at they are. The SEO of wordpress.org is not at risk here.

M.


On 15 July 2014 17:34, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, rel="nofollow" doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean
> anymore, in part because many large sites (including Wikipedia and
> WordPress.org in for instance plugin pages) started to blanket nofollow
> links instead of properly policing their content. So even though those
> links are nofollowed, they'll still show up in people's backlink reports in
> Google Webmaster Tools. Annoying? Yes. Our (as a web community) own bloody
> fault? Yes.
>
> So let's "man up" and just fix it. It doesn't need to be automated,
> Wikipedia has a spam fighting team for exactly the same reason.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Half-Elf on Tech <ipstenu at halfelf.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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