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in thread Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!

I think the idea there is to hide them from the search engine spidering.

Humans can ignore them for being obviously spam, and most people won't even see them due to reaping, but the spider bots are very aggressive and spot them almost immediately.

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Re^4: Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 07, 2013 at 14:36 UTC

    I'd always assumed that nodes didn't appear on the spiderable PM server until they were approved. A quick google proves that wrong unfortunately.

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