#wordpress 2018-02-10

2018-02-10 UTC
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tantek WordPress folks, does this WordPress development related blog look legit to you? https://imelgrat.me/ (i.e. non-spammy, original useful/accurate articles etc.)
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[pfefferle] Looks like a spammy seo plugin to me...
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[pfefferle] I mean seo-page
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[pfefferle] But the person behind the blog looks legit https://github.com/imelgrat
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[pfefferle] Perhaps only a bad theme choice...
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tantek it's a challenge with such "clean" or maybe "slick" looking themes, when seo-blogs use them, then it makes everyone that uses them look like seo-blogs
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aaronpk I googled a random sentence from one of the posts and it's from ibm.com and also in a book
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aaronpk a different random sentence is from msdn
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tantek hmm and unattributed? possibly plagiarised?
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tantek I'd be curious if you tried such googling from one of our posts
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tantek what the result would be
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tantek wow maybe that would be useful as a post preview / linter tool
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tantek google results for each sentence in your post to see if you somehow said exaclty the same thing as someone else already did
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aaronpk https://media.aaronpk.com/Screen-Shot-2018-02-09-18-11-48-vvcD9GVolw.jpg
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aaronpk 😂
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aaronpk first result of a sentence on our home page is in a book because we were quoted in the book
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tantek I'd consider almost a good challenge / worthy goal to have none of the sentences in my posts have any existing google results.
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tantek It would be a way of "text fingerprinting" all your posts.
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tantek s/fingerprinting/watermarking
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tantek I mean, the entire post would be a watermark in itself!
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tantek textual watermarking
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tantek ok apparently "text watermarking" is a thing
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GWG [miklb] Already did
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petermolnar !tell tantek re watermarking text: https://github.com/rlk/whitemark
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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Loqi [rlk] whitemark: Steganographic encoding of a watermark in the whitespace of text
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[tantek] Yeah I’ve seen the white space stuff before. Not worth the hassle IMO
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Loqi [tantek]: petermolnar left you a message 4 hours, 4 minutes ago: re watermarking text: https://github.com/rlk/whitemark
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