points by pg 13 years ago

Probably because we restrict their crawlers. But this is an excellent side effect, because the last thing I want is traffic from Google searches.

derrida 13 years ago

If you really want to make it difficult for people to find this place, an idea might be to raise the technical threshold required to view it: serve it on telnet like a BBS-era board, or run it as a Tor hidden service, or better yet: both!

It might be a bad idea for some reason I cannot conceive of right now.

  • soneca 13 years ago

    One thing is not want people wondering around, looking for a quick random answer, as this site is pretty much about community.

    Other is make it difficult to access by a random, specific criteria, such as technical hability. Yes, I am no tech hacker, never used Tor, but I try to be part of this community as valuable member. I think community is about aligning interests, not an exclusivist club.

danso 13 years ago

Ahh...my first guess was that every hyperlink was just nofollow, but I see HN discussion threads come up fairly frequently in Google searches (on technical topics)