Stop means no. And no means no. So . . . stop.

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Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 4:41:07 pm PDT #1696 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No! We have no good guys left!

It must be a glitch in the ... a bug with the ...

I dunno.


DXMachina - Jul 12, 2004 4:50:51 pm PDT #1697 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

They fooled us all. Now they know everything about us. Including what we're syaing about them in this threa...


Allyson - Jul 12, 2004 4:55:44 pm PDT #1698 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

This must be Ashcroft's doing.

I'm searching everything now, see iffn we come up.


tommyrot - Jul 12, 2004 4:59:46 pm PDT #1699 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Wouldn't Google come up with that link as a search result if enough other sites have that link? Google doesn't have to hit us with their spiders in order know about us, do they?


Sue - Jul 12, 2004 4:59:56 pm PDT #1700 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I think that post got linked around in other posting boards. Didn't we determine that's how other posts made it on to Google.


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 5:04:21 pm PDT #1701 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yes, but what's the point of noindex,nofollow if you still end up indexed?


Ginger - Jul 12, 2004 5:16:12 pm PDT #1702 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

It's my understanding that using robots.txt is more reliable. (See [link] I've never used it because I normally only need to exclude a few pages temporarily. For that, I use no index, no follow and cross my fingers.


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 5:20:19 pm PDT #1703 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah. We got one of those too. Says:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /showthread.php


Ginger - Jul 12, 2004 5:53:48 pm PDT #1704 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Then I got nothing, except to agree that having Google index those pages is annoying and inexplicable.


DCJensen - Jul 12, 2004 8:57:00 pm PDT #1705 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.

I would hazard to guess it might be worth a query to their techs, maybe?