Alex, pardon my dunderheadedness, but would one place that "" all together, just like that, as the first thing in the thread?

Editing back in because I notice the "noindex & /noindex" thingy didn't show up. The reason I'm asking this question is because usually a command, such as inserting italics ("") comes before and after the text you want to affect. But you seemed to be saying just place the whole thing at the beginning.

Thank you, Sir Alex.

That's right, Andrew. You just enter only [noindex][/noindex] (i.e. all together, with nothing in-between), and do this first thing at the beginning of the post, before you start entering your poem.

Cheers,
...Alex

Thanks, Alex. You answered my question even without my editing back to explain myself better!
Andrew

Thanks, Alex.

Just to be clear,

(a) we don't have to put any code into our posts now to stop them from Google, it will happen automatically; and

(b) there will be no period of time, even prior to pruning, when newly posted poems (as opposed to poems posted before today) will show up in Google; and

(c) one can still use the tags in non-workshop forums to keep particular threads from being indexed?

Assuming (c) is correct, must we use the tags to surround the entire posting, or just put them both up top?

Thanks again.

Roger, my understanding (I've no more info to go on than you have) is
a) the default for past and future posts is that search engines will find them
b) if you add the new tags, posts will disappear from Google the next time Erato is scanned, at the earliest - more likely days than weeks.
c) You put the tags as is at the top of your posting. I'd guess that it affects the whole thread that it appears in.

Can someone explain to me how this works: I googled a phrase from a translation I had at the Translation forum a few months ago and it came up on google but when I click there I can't get the thread. I understand the thread has been pruned, so why would it show up on google? How can I get it to stop?

I should have thought that this tag would be like any other html or IMG tag we use here. The text to be hidden is located between the start part of the tag [ ] and the finish part [/]. If the tag were generated by the software, say with an N alongside the B, I, and U, the cursor would appear between the parts and one would just proceed to type the poem with its perhaps false title. Is that not the case? If it is, since we don't have the automatic N, we probably should type in the whole tag, place the cursor between the two parts and type in the poem or whatever we want hidden. Else place the first or start tag, type in the poem, and then type in the finishing tag. Let's try it:

We should not be able to find the expression: -with Google or any other search engine.

Let's see if it works...... Well, it must work, in a way, because the expression I placed between the words "expression:" and "with" disappears when I merely preview this post. But does this mean the poems will also disappear from the workshop thread? I hope not, but we can test it if someone will put up a suitable poem, between the parts of the tag, at TDE or one of the other workshop boards. I don't want to risk another poem.

G/W

EDITED IN: The test expression was "Egarlux Puriam Booliroo" and Google did not find it. Now that I have put it outside the noindex tag it will probably be found eventually by Google---but that still does not tell us whether a poem posted for workshopping will disappear from the thread.

Earlier Alex wrote
i.e. the "hidden" text doesn't go between the start and end parts.

Tim, I don't think it will work that way. I believe Alex relies on the cursor popping back between the parts. but when we have to type in the whole
tag the cursor won't do that. If I'm wrong, then this is a very peculiar tag, which it well may be.



EDTING IN: Too impatient to wait, I decided to use the poem I previously exposed to rist at TDE. I used the tag as Alex presented it. The poem did not disappear, and so far neither Google nor Yahoo have found the nonsense title I placed on it. It's at the TDE thread titled "Il Ragno" (the spider). We'll wait to see whether the spiders eventually find it by the title---or until it's pruned by Maryann.

Wiley, I may be misinterpreting you, but this text does not require the cursor to "pop back in" between the two halves. Tthough I have put a space between the first bracket and the "noindex" so it will show up here, this text below (without that extra space).

[ noindex][/noindex]

should be entered as a non-interrupted entity as the initial text of a post.

My understanding is that text is not to be entered between the two halves.

Alex wrote as follows: