On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:46:44 +0100, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:51:13 +0000, Denis McMahon writes: >>On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:32:25 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: >> >>> In what way is discussion of a tangential topic feeding the troll? >>> Said troll is not even participating in the discussion. >> >>Reposting / responding / following up with the original subject boosts >>the visibility of the subject to internet search engines because of the >>way newsgroups get gated to websites.
> That is not what I was told. I was told that these days it is all done > by References: lines. Thus changing the Subject no longer has this > effect. Wrong? Hmm, not sure on that bone, I heard that more instances of a phrase being found (eg in forums where a web page includes the subject in each message) helped increase the visibility of the phrase in some way, but I don't profess to understand how search engines score stuff, and I'm fairly sure few people do to be honest. And what I heard might no longer be true if it ever was to be honest. -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
