# Editing Old Posts and Adding Links Doesn't Alert Anybody

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 28, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373 "2014-08-28T04:39:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![cipher1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cipher1/32/42613_2.png) [@cipher1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cipher1)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373/19 "2014-08-29T15:05:49Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> It’s going to be very, very hard to get leader (and thus SEO follow) in an exploitative way with the Like requirement changes I described above. Remember you also lose leader status if you don’t keep this behavior up for every last 100 day period!

Not really. All you have to do is have

> [@faoileag](#):
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> some sock puppets

Then you set up a PM between your main account and your puppets. Each account posts to the PM each day, and likes the posts made by each of your other accounts every day. Assuming someone really wanted to manipulate the system to get SEO following, they set up 6 accounts, and now each of those 6 accounts is getting likes from 5 different users each day. Those 6 accounts now reach the likes limit for TL3 within 4 days, and can maintain it without any help from anyone else indefinitely.

And let’s say that you block likes from PMs. Then you just make an on-topic post from each of those accounts in some random topic, and make sure to like those posts with your 5 other accounts.

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