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A comment on Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed by allenbrunson on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:54PM (#686457)
pg has said in the past that it's because of spam. allowing the urls to stay live in that case would give them unwarranted google juice.

EDIT: pg says it's because he doesn't want people following spam links. i stand corrected.

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Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed by pg on Friday July 03, 2009 @03:14PM (#686490)
It's not page rank (links are nofollow till they get 5 karma) but traffic. I want spammers to realize they get so little traffic from HN that it's not worth posting here.
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