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pg has said in the past that it's because of spam. allowing the urls to stay live in that case would give them unwarranted google juice. EDIT: pg says it's be
by allenbrunson 17y ago
pg has said in the past that it's because of spam. allowing the urls to stay live in that case would give them unwarranted google juice.
EDIT: pg says it's because he doesn't want people following spam links. i stand corrected.
- pg 17y agoIt's not page rank (links are nofollow till they get 5 karma) but traffic. I want spammers to realize they get so little traffic from HN that it's not worth posting here.