This must be Ashcroft's doing.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

Yeah. We got one of those too. Says:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /showthread.php

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

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

Voting results are in and posted in Press. There is going to be a Book Club thread.

A name and a slug discussions are going to be here?

Question: Do we want this to be not so google-able? Which is the slug, again? Is it the one that appears at the top of the thread, or is it that which appears on the main page and message center page?

Suggestions for thread titles:

Reading Room
Buffista Biblioscopy

(I've been trying to think of something that evokes the Sunnydale High School Library, but all I'm coming with is Sunnydale High School Library and The Library. Maybe someone else can run with it?)

Possible thread title/name combos (they correspond to the quotes cited later, and the combos are not inseparable):

Reading Room: A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread

Reading Room: A Single Petticoat

Buffista Biblioscopy: The addictive semiconscious vice

Obligatory BtVS tie-ins

Buffista Biblioscopy: Isn't the point of computers to replace books?

Buffista Biblioscopy: A Cup of Bovril and a Good Book

Buffista Biblioscopy: We Enjoy Cross-Referencing

Buffista Biblioscopy: We Stuff Our Own Shirts

Buffista Biblioscopy: That's Some Deep Academia There

Buffista Biblioscopy: Sometimes There's Drool

Buffista Biblioscopy: I-I Must Consult My Books

Reading Room: All Summer With Your Nose In A Book

Buffista Biblioscopy: Depends On the Book

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Quotes corresponding to above suggestions:

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyám

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron (re those warning young women not to read his Don Juan)

The addictive semiconscious vice of biblioscopy—having to see what the other person is reading, usually on a train … peering over shoulders, bending down to attend simultaneously to a shoelace and a dust jacket, furtively changing seats.
Nigel Andrew (London Times 11 Mar 85)

t obligatory-Buffy

Cordelia: "There are books on computers? Isn't the point of computers to replace books?"
to Buffy in The Dark Age

Buffy: So, you like to party with the students. Isn't that kinda skanky?
Giles: Oh, right, this is me having fun. Watching... clown hair prance about is hardly my idea of a party. I'd much rather be at home with a cup of Bovril and a good book.
Welcome to the Hellmouth

Giles: I'll have you know that I have very, uh, many relaxing hobbies.
Buffy: Such as?
Giles: Well, um... I enjoy cross-referencing.
Buffy: Do you stuff your own shirts, or do you send them out?
Halloween

Buffy: I mean I can't believe you got into Oxford!
Willow: It's pretty exciting.
Oz: That's some deep academia there.
Buffy: That's where they make Gileses.
Choices

Giles: The resources that the ... Watchers Council has at their disposal, I mean the Central Library alone is just...
Buffy: Don't talk about the books again. You get all ... and sometimes there's drool.
Triangle

Buffy: You're the Watcher. I just work here.
Giles: Yes, I-I must consult my books.
Xander: Oh, eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, pay up. I called ten minutes before you'd consult your books about something. Thanks.
When She Was Bad

Giles: How was your summer?
Jenny: Extreme. I did Burning Man in Black Rock, ohhh, such a great festival, you should've been there. They had drum rituals, mobile sculptures, raves, naked mud dances, you would've just... hated it with a fiery passion!
Giles: I can't imagine finding any redeeming, uh... Naked?
Jenny: Hmm. And you probably spent all summer with your nose in a book.
Giles: Yes. I suppose you'd consider that frightfully dull.
Jenny: Depends on the book. When She Was Bad

t /o-B

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Other suggestions

From Ginger:

[re thread title] It could also be "Buffista Bibliobibuli."

[source quote] "There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion." —H. L. Mencken