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You have to remove incentives. Block the viewing of these snippets by logged out users by default and require opt-in and a way to whitelist snippets by snippet or user. Same for user profiles


I don't think this is targeting human views - but it's targeting Google for SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) boost.


That's the point. Having a way to disable search engines would also work, but wouldn't be obvious to spammers so they would still try to spam. Disabling all users by default works to remove the incentive to try




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