Re: Searchability of non-mainspace pages

 
In a message dated 4/28/2008 7:16:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight
Time,  
cohesionsleepyhead.org writes:

Page  blanking does work almost all the
time, but what about areas that have a  high likelihood for
problems?
Should we not index from the start, or only  blank as needed
for the
sake of transparency? I kinda like both solutions  equally.
:P>>


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I'm in agreement with Judson here.
Any specific, exact, identified, particular... issues could
be solved with  
oversight.
There is no need to wipe the entire board white to solve a 
few 
particular-case concerns.
 
Will Johnson



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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:37 AM,  <WJhonsonaol.com> wrote:
>  I'm in agreement with Judson here.
>  Any specific, exact, identified, particular... issues
could be solved with
>  oversight.
>  There is no need to wipe the entire board white to
solve a  few
>  particular-case concerns.

Page blanking and oversight are generally only done AFTER
problems are
identified.  Marking our non-product pages as non-indexable
reduces
the likelihood of problems in the first place - what
generally bothers
someone is not that things are written about them but that
they show
up on the first page of Google results.

-Matt

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Matthew Brown
<morvengmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:37 AM,  <WJhonsonaol.com> wrote:
> >  I'm in agreement with Judson here.
> >  Any specific, exact, identified, particular...
issues could be solved
> with
> >  oversight.
> >  There is no need to wipe the entire board white
to solve a  few
> >  particular-case concerns.
>
> Page blanking and oversight are generally only done
AFTER problems are
> identified.  Marking our non-product pages as
non-indexable reduces
> the likelihood of problems in the first place - what
generally bothers
> someone is not that things are written about them but
that they show
> up on the first page of Google results.
>
> -Matt
>

We are normally able to figure out when something is
particularly
embarrassing. I,  at least, have no hesitation in erring on
the side of
caution by blanking discussions if I think them problematic
- before there
are any complaints. I still don't see the problem - perhaps
it could be done
more often.

RR
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Relata Refero
<refero.relatagmail.com> wrote:
>  We are normally able to figure out when something is
particularly
>  embarrassing. I,  at least, have no hesitation in
erring on the side of
>  caution by blanking discussions if I think them
problematic - before there
>  are any complaints. I still don't see the problem -
perhaps it could be done
>  more often.
>

Yes, I meant, I came into this liking the no-index magic
word
scenario, but Relata may have a point. Maybe blanking is
good enough.
In my experience people are happy with it, and I mean very
simple
blanking, not even deletion, much less oversight. What they
don't want
is to be a hit in Google, they usually don't care one bit
about our
history.

I usually feel like for every n people that complain, a
multiple of n
stay silent, despite being wronged. That's why I would lean
towards
preemptive no-indexing for *some* pages. (AFD etc), but this
is a
slippery slope. The idea of blanking easily as the only
solution is
appealing also.

Judson
http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion

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