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Discussion on: Help fight spam in our community! πŸ™Œ

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Jan Schenk (he/him)

@michaeltharrington Thanks for the insights. Is the rel="ugc" parameter to urls something universal that search engine crawlers understand themselves? I've not run into this before, but it sounds like a neat idea (until spammers find ways to override it eventually).
Thanks for what you all at Dev do to keep our conversations clean of the "spammy spamminess" (<- loved this!).

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Ingo Steinke

rel=ugc is a universal attribute value invented by Google. It works similar to rel=nofollow. Moz.com has a good blog post on that aspect of search engine marketing and trying to prevent spammers misusing our own marketing and development effort: How Google's Rel = Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Links Impact SEO

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Jan Schenk (he/him)

Thanks for the read, Ingo!

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Michael Tharrington

I see @ingosteinke already followed up with a great answer below. I love the Mozilla resources. Thanks Ingo! πŸ™Œ

And Jan, I'm glad ya dig the "spammy spamminess" line. 😁 The fight against spammers is both ridiculous and frustrating... I try to find the humor in it so as not too just seethe with rage all day. πŸ˜‚πŸ€¬