<story><title>A domain move disaster</title><url>http://www.paulingraham.com/domain-move-disaster.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxmcd</author><text>Related or not, this is certainly against the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.painscience.com&amp;#x2F;donate-by-linking.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.painscience.com&amp;#x2F;donate-by-linking.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulingraham</author><text>Google certainly should penalize spammy, unnatural links ... and any attempt to get them.  On the other hand, I hope it’s not against the rules to encourage relevant and earnest links.  I should take the page down if there’s any doubt.  Meanwhile, I’ve added a very strong warning that links should be editorially relevant and sincere.&lt;p&gt;In any case, the “donate by linking” page is quite new.  The domain move disaster was months old by the time I first published it.</text></comment>
<story><title>A domain move disaster</title><url>http://www.paulingraham.com/domain-move-disaster.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxmcd</author><text>Related or not, this is certainly against the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.painscience.com&amp;#x2F;donate-by-linking.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.painscience.com&amp;#x2F;donate-by-linking.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixQuarks</author><text>Why is that against the rules?  Asking for links is not against the rules.</text></comment>