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PA Forums show up in Google now?
mcdermott
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Is this a new thing? I didn't think these forums were indexed by google.
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Maybe I'm crazy.
I was under that impression as well.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
EDIT: I was pretty sure the intent was not to have them indexed/cached either, but I went to search for something for somebody and was pointed back to the very thread I'd just been reading. Figured I'd give a heads up in case this was something that wasn't supposed to be.
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Turns out it was the main site itself, and not the forums.
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forums.penny-arcade.com/bots.txt or something. I hope I'm not making that up, because it's definitely a bad link right now.
I think the most he's likely to get, though, is an avatar change.
So, looks like that answers that, though. Thanks CT. I just wanted to make sure it was intentional, since I was pretty sure it was a change.
Probably from the old forums, which may have been under that hierarchy.
Not enough to make a stink about it and not that if I did it would matter.
But I too am curious why this was changed.
Possibly because robots.txt still has /forums from when the forums were at /forums. There's also no robots.txt on forums.penny-arcade.com.
That doesn't explain why they deliberately changed it. (:
I'm also curious.
"How" and "Why" are different question words. One refers to method, the other to reason. I asked Why.
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Except that CT said that this change (to being indexed) was deliberate. So it's not an oversight.
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It has been my intention for a very long time that the forums should be indexed, but there were several things I wanted in place first. After enough time passed, those things seemed less and less important and so finally a couple weeks ago, the robots.txt was removed to allow the indexing to start.
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Although stories that might end up on a publishers desk only pop up once every few months, it might be good to exclude The Writer's Block, even if you don't exclude the whole forum.
I know I won't really be posting in The Writer's Block anymore unless I am 100% sure I don't care about the fate of the particular work. Once Google caches something, well...no thanks. Not that I really post there much as it is, just to be honest.
Really, other than that, and the fact that people like to threaten to murder each other here over stuff as minor as disliking Halo or spoiling the newest Disney film, I'm not sure this is a big deal anyway.
But seriously though, the forums were already being indexed by other sites.
But that doesn't keep publishers from rejecting your submission due to it being published already. Which is the point.
^This is the actual problem moreso than copyright.^
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I think they're generally aware that if something is up here there's a chance that there will be problems when submitting it to a publisher. When we weren't being indexed, we could just come here and snip the content out and be pretty much fine, so far as I understood the process. Now, though, Google will have a cache of the content that cutting it out here won't catch.
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I'm just explaining the situation with respect to the WB specifically. I don't personally have any opinion on the indexing/non-indexing of the Forums, although it was neat to learn that we are on Google now.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35306