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It seems like there are some more subtle ways of doing it though. If Dave had a mechanism for proving to HN that he was the owner of a particular URL (e.g. by

It seems like there are some more subtle ways of doing it though. If Dave had a mechanism for proving to HN that he was the owner of a particular URL (e.g. by adding something to its html), then perhaps he could tell HN what to do with that url: Don't allow links to it at all; Link, but don't have a comment thread, etc. Come to think of it, if it was successful this could be generalized to a mechanism that all forums could be expected to support, just like search engines are supposed to honor robots.txt

claudius 13y ago
What’s wrong with using robots.txt directly or possibly something like fora.txt, following basically the same syntax as robots.txt? – allowing you to forbid all aggregators/social somethings/fora/a specific whatever to link to you. Not that I would be particularly fond of a web where you have/are expected to check with a given site in order to be allowed to link to that site…