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user-inactivated  ·  3902 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Comment spam on Hubski

I think kicking Hubski off all robots.txt respecting search engines would help against spammers here just for the SEO. Had been suggested by kleinbl00 to keep random mooks who arrive via Google out, but also helps with this.

Alternatively, we could take advantage of the nofollow attribute, a la Wikipedia. Not as effective as disallowing all, but still better than nothing.

These won't be helpful against "direct spam" though.