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						| Trippy 
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 Does anybody use the previous and next buttons at the bottom of each topic page? They are messing up Google and I wanted to get rid of them.
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						| Murgos 
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 The only place I have ever used the 'previous next' buttons is in online comics to catch up with missed episodes.  Back in 95 or 96 the damned things were everywhere, now they are mostly extinct, farewell to an era. |  
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						| Signe 
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						| Samwise 
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						| Hoax 
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 lol we have those?  Kill them... |  
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						| Strazos 
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						| Calantus 
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 I don't notice them myself.
 Then again, at this point my post is essentially postcount++, but I can live with that.
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						| schild 
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 Wow, even I just noticeed them for the first time. Dump them! |  
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						| Quinton 
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 I accidentally used them a couple times when I thought they might be prev/next page within a single thread.
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						| Yegolev 
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 I click on them when I forget that they don't take me to the next page of the same thread.  F13 is not some place you want to go to a thread you don't know anything about beforehand, so I always back up a level and look at the titles. |  
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						| Zetleft 
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 Never used em, never noticed em.   |  
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						| Roac 
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 The buttons are misleading.  They allow you to click on them, even if there are no other pages.    |  
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						| Kenrick 
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						| Signe 
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 Make them go away soon.  I can't stop looking at them now.      |  
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						| eldaec 
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 Wow, turns out they don't even do what I thought they did.
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						| Jayce 
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 No wait!  I used them!
 Just kidding.  Like everyone else I either misused them or found out that I didn't care a bout the next thread.
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						| Azazel | 
 Never noticed them before. I use the page numbers.
 
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						| Miasma 
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 You should leave them in just to spite Google.  All their hundreds of PhD's flailing about, stumped by two little words on a web page, I like it. |  
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						| Trippy 
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 You should leave them in just to spite Google.  All their hundreds of PhD's flailing about, stumped by two little words on a web page, I like it.
 No, it's not their fault, they are finding those links just fine and in fact are using them as the links in their index and that's the problem. Where those links take you vary over time depending on factors I haven't bothered to figure out. It's like hitting the "New" button. Where it takes you changes depending on who you are and what you've done in the past. There are other links like those two that are screwing up Google as well like posts indexed via the "View the most recent posts on the forum" link but those will take more work to fix since I can't just remove them (well I could but that would probably annoy a lot of Guests). Edit: typos |  
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						| Trippy 
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 I nuked the links. Hopefully Google will reindex things properly now.
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						| Signe 
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 I miss them already.       Why does everything have to change? |  
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						| eldaec 
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 I nuked the links. Hopefully Google will reindex things properly now.
 They're still there. THEY WON'T DIE. WHY WON'T THEY DIE?! |  
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						| Trippy 
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 I nuked the links. Hopefully Google will reindex things properly now.
 They're still there. THEY WON'T DIE. WHY WON'T THEY DIE?!I only changed them in the default f13 theme since that's what the Google bot sees. I don't care about the other themes. |  
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						| Llava 
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						| Jayce 
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 Where it takes you changes depending on who you are and what you've done in the past. 
 Like that time where I was 14 and I... but never mind that. |  
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