Comments on: Incoming Links https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/18/incoming-links/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:50:25 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/18/incoming-links/#comment-1025 podrock Mon, 23 May 2011 22:32:32 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=909#comment-1025 Incoming links theory confirmed. I followed some of those links and yes, they do include links to deleted userpages on the old DamnTikiWiki. Interesting, though, is that there are other links on these pages that go to other sites using the TikiWiki software. A weakness of the software, obviously, and open registration. Since anyone could register, anyone could create content. And since we were mainly using the forum, we didn't always notice when these pages were being created. Incoming links theory confirmed. I followed some of those links and yes, they do include links to deleted userpages on the old DamnTikiWiki. Interesting, though, is that there are other links on these pages that go to other sites using the TikiWiki software. A weakness of the software, obviously, and open registration. Since anyone could register, anyone could create content. And since we were mainly using the forum, we didn’t always notice when these pages were being created.

]]> By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/18/incoming-links/#comment-815 podrock Wed, 18 May 2011 17:34:12 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=909#comment-815 <p>My theory</p> is that they are related to the spammers we had during the DTW Era. They'd register and then create a userpage composed of spam. My guess is that they then linked to those pages from these sites to drive traffic. I haven't visited any of the sites yet, some of them have not been cleared by Norton. I compared names to some of the never used members of the Zone, and found no matches. In the last months of the Wiki, I deleted a couple of dozen offending users, and some of the names look familiar, but I cannot be sure. I might have notes I kept, buried, no doubt, under the stratigraphic column that is my desk. My theory

is that they are related to the spammers we had during the DTW Era. They’d register and then create a userpage composed of spam.

My guess is that they then linked to those pages from these sites to drive traffic. I haven’t visited any of the sites yet, some of them have not been cleared by Norton.

I compared names to some of the never used members of the Zone, and found no matches. In the last months of the Wiki, I deleted a couple of dozen offending users, and some of the names look familiar, but I cannot be sure. I might have notes I kept, buried, no doubt, under the stratigraphic column that is my desk.

]]> By: TB https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/18/incoming-links/#comment-814 TB Wed, 18 May 2011 14:07:18 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=909#comment-814 Somebody's throwing sausages at us. Somebody’s throwing sausages at us.

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