"[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.
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.'