This, especially, is an extremely good point. Are there any pros to remaining indexable? Tentatively it might increase content-related traffic (as opposed to people thinking about reddit traffic). People might conceivably read a Wired/NPR article about hubski, try to google it and give up because they draw a blank. But surely this won't happen almost ever. EDIT: oh, the biggest pro -- without google I would never find any old posts or comments that I needed to reference. Can't de-index without a passable replacement for searching.and because of the radically-higher signal-to-noise ratio here than Reddit, participation here is radically increasing my doxing profile.
Yup. I used Hubski search first but 50% of the time end up using google and site:Hubski.com to find what I need. There is a limit to the number of old posts you can see (you can only click more so many times) so not everything is indexed in google and hypothetically it isn't googled by forever. But popular posts that get clicked stay longer. I think.
Google has been very handy for finding old posts. Including that picture of flagamuffin - flaggy, I remembered that it was you and a bicycle -- nothing else, and found it very quickly with Google.