bleeb
Contributor
skimlinks?
block?
I haven't a clue what that means ... how do you block something ... and how did it show up on ScubaBoard?
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
It's keyword ad revenue for SB, sort of like Google Adwords, but instead inserting hyperlinks in text. There's good and bad in the scheme. On the one hand, there's ad revenue. On the other hand, the way it appears to modify people's postings does rub a large minority the wrong way (not just here on SB). It's been in use here a while, but it seems relatively infrequent that someone's actually bought the keyword and the effects show up. However, watching the diagnostics at this end, it does seem to be a significant although not dominant part of the time it takes to load a page.