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Trolls, SEO "morons" prompt smaller media sites to rethink comments (thestandard.com)
4 points by ilamont on Oct 1, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



They should just use Disqus...


More of Karl Marx's class warfare.

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"[Universal Hub] doesn't use nofollow," Gaffin explains. "... word was getting out among the pagerank queens and I was getting tired of dealing with those morons."

Gaffin reports that forcing commenters to register has greatly reduced the problems described above, although he says some of the "pagerank losers" are still willing to create user accounts on Universal Hub to boost the PageRank of their websites or those of customers.

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"Pagerank queen" = subset of lumpenprol. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat)

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852), Marx refers to the lumpenproletariat as the 'refuse of all classes,' including 'swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone merchants, beggars, and other flotsam of society.'




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