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Title: Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content
Post by: LinksEtc on August 25, 2014, 09:06:47 PM
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"Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content"

http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/do-not-link-donotlink-ethically-criticize-seo-nofollow/?utm_content=buffer69531&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer (http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/do-not-link-donotlink-ethically-criticize-seo-nofollow/?utm_content=buffer69531&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

QuoteI've written many times about how skeptics need to take care when linking to bad information that we intend to rebut. Because links are used by search engines to measure the importance of content, linking to a piece of pseudoscience or misinformation (in the process of rebutting or debunking it) might actually have the effect of making it more visible to others. That's not desirable.
Title: Re: Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content
Post by: CMdeux on August 25, 2014, 09:12:41 PM
LOVE that.   :yes:
Title: Re: Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content
Post by: LinksEtc on August 25, 2014, 09:19:36 PM
I started on Twitter for the sesame stuff, but it is a dangerous playground of links for somebody like me.   :hiding:
Title: Re: Do Not Link allows you to ethically criticize bad content
Post by: SilverLining on August 26, 2014, 07:16:44 AM
That's a rule I try to follow.