Hehe. I remember about ten years back, when Hormel's lawsuits were all over Slashdot (to be fair, as far as I can tell, they were mostly trying to defend their trademark and prevent trademark dilution) and for a while, everybody was going nuts over using "spam" (the term generally used to refer to unsolicited, commercial content) vs. "SPAM" (the trademark). Hormel even had a policy statement on their website back then. These days, there's a spam museum and I've heard that they even show the Monty Python skit there.
Thanks again guys for your support and help at weeding out spam. We now have enough users in all the time zones to pretty much guarantee that enough users will be on shift at almost any time of the day to promptly shoot down spam. Saves me a lot of time and effort, and results in much cleaner boards for all.
If one of our problems is that links are getting picked up by google, would anybody here object to some client-side javascript de-obfuscation?
Google's spiders will see the page that is served, with, say, '[BLF link] www#dealextreme#com [/BLF]', while we see 'www.dealextreme.com'. It should be a fairly straightforward and lightweight bit of code.
Hi devman, thanks for the suggestion. I personally don't mind linking to good companies and deals, as well as other sites that provide useful information about some product we are discussing. It's just that we don't want to help out the spammers' cause.
Another option might be ref=nofollow links for the domain names of the bad guys.
