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Maybe this is true. But I'm glad HN has a feature that lets us mark a story so that it becomes a nofollow link no matter how many points it has.
by pg 14y ago
Maybe this is true. But I'm glad HN has a feature that lets us mark a story so that it becomes a nofollow link no matter how many points it has.
- loverobots 14y agoNo doubt he can post a sanitized snapshot of the email exchanges to prove this is real :)
- akanet 14y agoCould you elaborate? I thought the story was somewhat in the hacker spirit in that it exploited the oft-overlooked option of retaliating against spammers.
- rmc 14y agopg is doubting if this story is true, and thinks it might be a nice "stick it to the man" story. Since it's linked here it might be a SEO attempt to get a higher Google ranking for words like "telemarketer".
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- imurray 14y agoI don't see a rel="nofollow" attribute on the link to the original post, or a meta tag in the page header(?). (Logged in or not.)
- pg 14y agoOops, there was a bug in that code that I just fixed.