A lot of spam is hitting Askbot-powered Q&A sites.
Spambots often open accounts and fill in the "website" field
in the user profile with a url they want to promote.
They also often fill in the profile field with some text
and links to some urls they want to promote.
At Ask Sage we just got a request from a website owner
telling us that Google webmaster tools was recommending
them to contact us about taking down some offending pages,
which were a spam post and a spam user profile page.
These were negatively impacting this webmaster's website
ranking.
One counter-measure for this spam activity would be if
Askbot could include a html tag
> ``
on profile pages of users with minimum karma,
and on question pages where neither the question
nor any answer got upvoted.
@Evgeny, would that be possible?
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