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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by namanyayg on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:07PM (#22320989)
How about not showing any usernames or profile info for any search results? That way you get SEO benefits as well.
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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by floatingatoll on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:32PM (#22321167)
Do you want to improve SEO or do you want a safe semi-private public space?

If you permit full text search of content, you permit abusers to discover and harass your members, because they can just sign up to find out who posted something once full text search discovers it.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by satanspastaroll on Friday February 14, 2020 @05:45AM (#22325513)
>Do you want to improve SEO or do you want a safe semi-private public space?

You're implying they're somehow inversely related. A site can be well represented even when it's users contents are not on display

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