Mars Hill finally added robots.txt to the campus prefixes

Recently Wenatchee The Hatchet documented that Mars Hill implemented robots.txt to prevent The WayBack Machine from crawling marshill.com but that there was a loophole that went unobserved, campus prefixes.

http://ballard.marshill.com/pastors-staff/

Time was you could plug that into The WayBack Machine and get results.  Of course it was noted this would not last long and sure enough:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110925203942/http://ballard.marshill.com/pastors-staff/

Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt.

Not that it particularly matters that robots.txt has been introduced.  The point of the earlier post was to highlight that because of the oversight, because of that loophole in how robots.txt was implemented, a whole raft of user profile numbers on The City were clearly made available to the public for any interested party to document.  Reassigning all those profiles is probably not worth the trouble and in any event the aim of the blog post was to give those who have access to The City an opportunity to investigate for themselves whether Willie Wilson, for instance, might still be a member of Mars Hill Church now that he's stopped being a pastor at the Rainier Valley campus.

https://www.facebook.com/RainierValleyChurch/posts/334721346613666

Mars Hill Church | Rainier Valley

July 31, 2012 ·

Pastor Willie Wilson inviting you to come "Grill & Chill" with us at Othello Park THIS SUNDAY at 2pm... For more information, visit us at marshill.com/rainiervalley

Wilson hasn't been a pastor that has been publicly listed for a while.

On the other hand, Jamie Munson may still actually formally be listed as a pastor within Mars Hill in spite of a lack of public mention of this role at Mars Hill websites.  Why would this matter?  Because Storyville Coffee got some fisking from The Stranger over its Mars Hill Church affiliations and Storyville seemed to be saying there wasn't really a formal connection.  That's arguably literally the case but not the point. An informal or indirect connection would still matter if the owner Jon Phelps turned out to be on the Mars Hill Church Board of Advisors and Accountability (as at least one person seems to have stated).  It would also matter if Jamie Munson were internally recognized by Mars Hill as a pastor if the public statements have been otherwise. 

Driscoll's made no secret over the years that it's important to get "up stream" where you can influence culture.

But as to why so much preaching and teaching got gutted and why robots.txt has been introduced ... it's not possible to say for sure.  But Wenatchee The Hatchet can document things anyway.  As noted before, this is a blog which is more process-oriented than goal-oriented about a few things.