I just don't see it as a big deal.
1. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has been rejected because their stuff showed up on this kind of search.
2. If you are concerned, Alex's suggestion about including a few nonsense lines at the top appears a bit of a nuisance (personally, I won't bother), but would appear to work. Somebody who is concerned about this can check exactly how it works. If the web scraper copies the first three lines, as presented, then simply start your post with three vertical white dots - one over the other. There'd be a bit of a space, but nothing would show. And indicate a false title for the primary listing (but not on the thread, because the three dots would hide it.) As I said, I wouldn't bother, but if you're concerned there do appear to be easy fixes.
3. This would be a bit more of a pain-in-the-neck for the mods, but we could be more aggressive about pruning. Prune down to the 3 week level and do it automatically every two weeks. So nothing up there would be more than five weeks old. That would also help.
Last edited by Michael Cantor; 04-19-2015 at 10:09 PM.
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