Google is trying out a new tag that prevents comment spammers from benefiting from those links in the calculation of Google rankings, which I understand is one of the motivators for people like the ones who've been vandalizing the ORU blog and wiki. I'm not sure whether it'll be effective - it's still too easy to automate and spam everything that's accessible, thereby making sure you get lots of pages out there, even if you don't get the Google rankings. Other measures - like requiring some kind of validation step like typing in a number presented in the form of an image or clicking an 'I am a human' checkbox - will probably still be required.
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