"Experimenters have found, for example, that even long-term supporters of Roman Polanski become much less likely to say anything embarrassing when they are required to receive a mild electric shock before blogging."
When people lift weights, the very difficulty of the weight lifting is the entire point and purpose of the exercise.
I always thought the main point was to get chicks and/or dudes. Have I been doing it wrong?
Unbennium's symbol would be Ube.
Indeed! The scientific l33t have high hopes that this will be the most uber element yet.
An alphabet of sins! For a second there I thought High Holy Days had come early. :)
Serge - how about an a cappella version?
"Doing well by doing good" -- I think that was The Old Dope Peddler's business model as well.
Blindsight, for people who are struggling to understand the others around them.
Jim, you're correct that this is a wash for Making Light. By turning on rel="nofollow" by default, MT and WordPress haven't harmed their own sites or decreased the volume of spam.
What this has done is zero out all links for Google/Yahoo/Bing. For sites that are incapable of catching & scrubbing spam, this is a very good thing for Google. For sites like ML that are able to catch and scrub their spam, this is a very bad thing for Google.
Ob disclosure: I work for Yahoo! Search.
David: I don't understand. If you're saying that the spammers are targeting Making Light so that they'll get clickthrough, then rel="follow" is just irrelevant and ML should just get rid of it ASAP.
Now if spammers are targeting ML to get linkjuice, then the jury is still out. I don't believe rel="nofollow" is doing anything positive for ML, but you'd have to run an experiment to see.
Jim: I recommend taking rel="nofollow" off for a month and measuring if there's any significant difference.
I think spammers care about rel="nofollow" the same way they care about the fact that I can't read Russian.
Michael Walsh @ 19: the "33" trick worked! My hero!
Michael Walsh @19: I'll give that a shot! My cellphone voicemail does delete the message right away on pressing "7", but I'll try the "33" trick on my corp voicemail.
KeithS @ 20: Nah, it's not about bloat/features. Most enterprise software I've seen ends up having *fewer* features than the equivalent consumer-grade software, while still being harder to use (a neat trick, that).
Enterprise software sucks due to lack of competition and no feedback loop. In enterprise software, the users have no choice -- the company pays megabucks for a "solution" that they can't back out of for years, if ever. The people who approved the purchase aren't responsible for using the software or making sure the contractors fix it.
KeithS @5 -- My work voicemail system does much the same, plus it requires *multiple* button presses to listen to your first message. It also won't let you delete a message until you've heard the entire thing. Arrrgh.
Work voicemail systems are worse than cellphone voicemail systems for the same reason that enterprise software is worse than consumer software.
/shakes fist at Madagascar
ALWAYS getting stopped by Madagascar. Grrrr!
What John Hawkes-Reed said.
Ah, I did skim the thread, but I missed Bryant @73. Thanks, Keith.
This guy is claiming to be responsible for the whole thing.
Aside from the bile, this quote caught my eye:
"I know some people who run some extremely high traffic (Alexa top 1000) websites. I show them my idea, and we all agree that it is pretty funny. They put an invisible iframe in their websites to refer people to the complaint URLs which caused huge numbers of visitors to report gay and lesbian items as inappropriate without their knowledge."
So he's saying that his friends at those "high traffic" sites colluded with him to take advantage of a XSRF flaw in Amazon's site. That's an interesting claim. If it's true, I wonder how many of those sites have gone to the effort to remove those malware iframes from their HTML source? (And of those who did, how many are still cached in Yahoo! or Google?)
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