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title: "Comment by QRiQRa Team on \"Link Rot Is Quietly Hurting Your Blog: Build a Dead-Link Checker in Python\" | Hashnode"
description: "The \"don't cry wolf\" rule is the part I would keep even if I dropped the rest. A checker that logs every 403 as a broken link gets ignored in a week. Separating"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/link-rot-is-quietly-hurting-your-blog-build-a-dead-link-checker-in-python-hbjv8/6af52e2e84eb1584f775060b)

Comment [Link Rot Is Quietly Hurting Your Blog: Build a Dead-Link Checker in Python](https://hashnode.com/posts/link-rot-is-quietly-hurting-your-blog-build-a-dead-link-checker-in-python-hbjv8/6af52e2e84eb1584f775060b)

[QRiQRa Team](https://hashnode.com/@qriqra)

[16h ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/link-rot-is-quietly-hurting-your-blog-build-a-dead-link-checker-in-python-hbjv8/6af52e2e84eb1584f775060b/comment/6af69d9e9aaf52b58cc9f52e)

The "don't cry wolf" rule is the part I would keep even if I dropped the rest. A checker that logs every 403 as a broken link gets ignored in a week. Separating bot-blocked hosts from links that failed on several runs is a useful distinction, and the one-request-per-second plus Retry-After habit is kind to the sites being checked. One addition I would consider later: treat a sudden batch of failures on the same host as a short outage, not a list of dead posts, so one downtime window does not fill the weekly report.

[ZyVOP](https://hashnode.com/@zyvop)

[16h ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/link-rot-is-quietly-hurting-your-blog-build-a-dead-link-checker-in-python-hbjv8/6af52e2e84eb1584f775060b/comment/6af69d9e9aaf52b58cc9f52e#reply-6af69ecfd1e68d7003d61ce9)

That's a really good addition. The current offline guard catches issues with the checker itself, but host-level failure detection would make it smarter. A temporary outage shouldn't turn into a list of broken links. I'll keep this in mind for the next iteration.