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In reply to the discussion: Expletive-laden OP's get lots of recs but are not productive [View all]Coyotl
(15,262 posts)37. But search engines are, and web filters are too. DU gets filtered as a domain, not page by page.
DU has incredible rank. I've started a thread and while researching the primary keywords to add more posts to the thread, had my own thread turn up as the highest ranked page on the web! The crawlers are reading DU every few minutes. But, all that rank is meaningless if the site is filtered because a few people are scatologically besmearing the place.
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But search engines are, and web filters are too. DU gets filtered as a domain, not page by page.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#37
I presume you're talking about the thread which aims the profanity at freepers and tea-partiers
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2013
#11
DU is not intended to be a harbor for Republicans and independents according to admin
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#32
I wasn't referring to your OP in particular, though this thread seems to.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2013
#17
The SOP of GD says 'no whining about DU' but these Meta type OPs continue to
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#20
No, you and the OP are claiming others are flawed, harming our 'cause' and being angry
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#23
I know what the OP wrote. I also know what I wrote and it has nothing to do with
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2013
#27
The citation wasn't about religion; it was about irony, and it still seems quite apt.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2013
#33
Many people on this site don't like moderate republicans, if there are any left. Some on
bluestate10
Oct 2013
#28
Shakespeare was very profane. Vonnegut used to write 'Why don't you take a
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#34
Lol, I would suggest you trash the thread if it bothers you! Like I am going...
Logical
Oct 2013
#35
There's an English professor in the office next to mine who's offended by my "cursing."
Gidney N Cloyd
Oct 2013
#44