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Comment author: loup-vaillant 22 June 2011 08:59:59PM *  4 points [-]

Words mess up with search engines: "vote", "parent", "child", "date"… There was a comments some months ago about just that. LessWrong looks like democratic astrology to Google. It may suck, but those words have to be removed if we want to change that.

Now there may be a solution if there was a way to use CSS to reintroduce words in a way that search engines don' see them (before and after pseudo attributes). But such a strategy might be interpreted as Black Hat SEO, so…

Comment author: saturn 23 June 2011 08:42:29AM *  4 points [-]

If you look at the HTML (or turn off CSS) you'll see that the words are actually still there, only hidden. It's making the site harder to use and not even helping the search engine issues.

Comment author: loup-vaillant 23 June 2011 03:01:26PM 0 points [-]

Ouch. A decision may need to be made one way or another, then. It would indeed be a pity to have the worst of both worlds.

I must say that I kinda like those icons though.