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Re: Removing my site from Google search

#101

Post by itsme-alan »

mlang23 wrote: post #100
robbrown451 wrote: post #72

It seems like the amount it will hurt Google is directly proportional to the amount it will hurt the owner of the site (assuming they want people to read their message). I'm sure someone at Google is pretty happy that they don't have to show this page in their search results. Nobody can accuse them of bias against anti-Google pages -- the site owner did it to themselves. Seems like as perfect an example of "cutting o…

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

That comment was just an analogy.

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#102

Post by nightfly »

mlang23 wrote: post #100
robbrown451 wrote: post #72

It seems like the amount it will hurt Google is directly proportional to the amount it will hurt the owner of the site (assuming they want people to read their message). I'm sure someone at Google is pretty happy that they don't have to show this page in their search results. Nobody can accuse them of bias against anti-Google pages -- the site owner did it to themselves. Seems like as perfect an example of "cutting o…

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

Go read some Foxnews comments to get some balancing dumb from the right. People say stupid shit online and neither side has a monopoly.

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#103

Post by renewiltord »

mlang23 wrote: post #100
robbrown451 wrote: post #72

It seems like the amount it will hurt Google is directly proportional to the amount it will hurt the owner of the site (assuming they want people to read their message). I'm sure someone at Google is pretty happy that they don't have to show this page in their search results. Nobody can accuse them of bias against anti-Google pages -- the site owner did it to themselves. Seems like as perfect an example of "cutting o…

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

Interesting. That just means I can make you vote any way I want by making the dumbest argument for the other side. You advertise a strategy that guarantees that you will always cast a manipulated vote. Entertaining.

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#105

Post by helge9210 »

mlang23 wrote: post #100
robbrown451 wrote: post #72

It seems like the amount it will hurt Google is directly proportional to the amount it will hurt the owner of the site (assuming they want people to read their message). I'm sure someone at Google is pretty happy that they don't have to show this page in their search results. Nobody can accuse them of bias against anti-Google pages -- the site owner did it to themselves. Seems like as perfect an example of "cutting o…

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

"I used to do X, but now I understand better and won't do X again" is a manipulation technic.

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#106

Post by mlang23 »

helge9210 wrote: post #105
mlang23 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

"I used to do X, but now I understand better and won't do X again" is a manipulation technic.

And comparing everything you dont like with anti-vax is not manipulative? C'mon, be more creative.

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#108

Post by mlang23 »

renewiltord wrote: post #103
mlang23 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

Interesting. That just means I can make you vote any way I want by making the dumbest argument for the other side. You advertise a strategy that guarantees that you will always cast a manipulated vote. Entertaining.

You seem to imply that not voting for the left automatically means voting for the right. May I remind you that there is another option you probably forgot about? Did you ever hear about the concept of abstaining from voting?

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#109

Post by zorpner »

mlang23 wrote: post #108
renewiltord wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. That just means I can make you vote any way I want by making the dumbest argument for the other side. You advertise a strategy that guarantees that you will always cast a manipulated vote. Entertaining.

You seem to imply that not voting for the left automatically means voting for the right. May I remind you that there is another option you probably forgot about? Did you ever hear about the concept of abstaining from voting?

In a two-party system (a necessary de facto in a single-member-district plurality system), failure to vote for a candidate is mathematically identical with a vote for the opposing party.

Re: Removing my site from Google search

#110

Post by advael »

mlang23 wrote: post #100
robbrown451 wrote: post #72

It seems like the amount it will hurt Google is directly proportional to the amount it will hurt the owner of the site (assuming they want people to read their message). I'm sure someone at Google is pretty happy that they don't have to show this page in their search results. Nobody can accuse them of bias against anti-Google pages -- the site owner did it to themselves. Seems like as perfect an example of "cutting o…

DId you just compare boycotting Google with not getting vaxed? I used to vote left. But reading people like you arguing like this reminds me to never ever do so again.

The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence
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