2016-09-28 1:54 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>: > On 24/09/2016 Dave Fisher wrote: > >> Someone of the DEV team may have access to templates and extensions sites >> which are hosted at sourceforge by agreement with the Apache OpenOffice PMC. >> Can someone help? >> > > As I wrote to the dev list last month, a number of PMC members have access > as moderators. So I think any of us (me included) can remove content. > > Still, we are wasting our time to help a self-admitted abuser get their > templates removed since they discovered their voluntary abuse will penalize > them in search engines. >
I concur to that, I've seen similar requests coming from hundreds of open source projects in my past business life. Let's be very clear about what the problem REALLY is: 1. "SEO experts" got hired, lots of links get set here and there 2. The customer realize via Google search tools that hurt THEM 3. They ask you to clean up their own garbage 4. Classic mantra: by cleaning your site your Google karma will benefit Now, those links do not affect AOOE/T Google karma in any measurable manner, and considering that those templates are of little interest to our audience (0 downloads) I believe that also associated links don't get clicked. > > Wouldn't it make more sense if the account is re-enabled and they clean up > after themselves? This could speed things up, since I won't have time to > look into this before version 4.1.3 is released - possibly next week, but > if they really are in a hurry they might want to take care of this > themselves as soon as possible. Let's leave to them to clean them up, we probably just need to give their spammer account the possibility to do so. Interesting to notice the account was suspended, all in all anti-spam measures have been improved! ;-) Roberto > Formbirds, if you prefer this option just tell us. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
