Just following this up. I think they were testing the interstitial pop-up advertisement when this thread got started, and the click through links were broken. They seem to be working now, but of course the interstitial is still a substantial "speed bump" for traffic that has to choose between a small text link above a huge irrelevant ad or a small button below it.
Of course if you look at the "from {url}" link that triggers the interstitial popup in the first place, it has a rel="nofollow" on it. I don't know -- that might have been true all along, I never looked before. But whenever it went nofollow, it is now, so if you're posting on Sex.com you're only doing it for the tiny trickle of traffic that makes it past the interstitial speed bumps.
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