Are you really trying to pretend that you don't care if people read your blog even though you link to it here all the time?
If there were an olympic event for mental gymnastics, you'd be dominating right now.
If there were an olympic event for mental gymnastics, you'd be dominating right now.
I checked to see if you have a point here, I submitted exactly one link out of the last 30 or so to my own site, the rest have been posted by others. If we go back 60 links that's approximately 300 days and there are still only 2 links, and both of these were in response to HN content, either articles or comment threads.
Suggest you re-read my original comment and then take your own nick as advice.
If you truly don't care about "what Google makes of it", why not block Google with your robots.txt file?
I'll tell you why: Because you do care, but you're pretending not to for the sake of arguing with a bunch of people on the internet. And the position you've taken in that argument appears to be based largely on spite rather than reason.
We get it, you don't like SEOs, but these changes clearly hurt innocent people who know little or nothing about SEO.
These changes are clearly hurting SEOers who practice massive link building regardless of quality, too. That is a good thing.
The rest of your comment seems to presume you know me better than I know myself so I'll leave that without a reply, but I'm happy that we have established that your original comment was a load of nonsense.