Comments on: Blogs and forums, do they match? http://tdhedengren.com/blog/blogs-and-forums-do-they-match/ The portfolio of Thord Daniel Hedengren Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:29:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TDH http://tdhedengren.com/blog/blogs-and-forums-do-they-match/comment-page-1/#comment-149 TDH Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:54:30 +0000 http://www.tdhedengren.com/archives/115#comment-149 There's nothing wrong with users posting to get their website URL out there, as long as they're contributing to the content. And that is indeed a problem, because many will just register and get in there, not bothering with actually deliver any value to the forum visitors. It might work for PageRank reasons, search engines love links, but if they want people to click their links they should participate in a serious manner since that is one of the cheapest ways of getting noticed today. What you could do to tackle these kind of problems is to: a) disable signatures until X posts are met b) openly state that all links in posts get a nofollow attribute for users that haven't posted X times to prevent spam. c) try to get moderators to help you. Running a forum is hard work. There’s nothing wrong with users posting to get their website URL out there, as long as they’re contributing to the content. And that is indeed a problem, because many will just register and get in there, not bothering with actually deliver any value to the forum visitors. It might work for PageRank reasons, search engines love links, but if they want people to click their links they should participate in a serious manner since that is one of the cheapest ways of getting noticed today.

What you could do to tackle these kind of problems is to:

a) disable signatures until X posts are met

b) openly state that all links in posts get a nofollow attribute for users that haven’t posted X times to prevent spam.

c) try to get moderators to help you.

Running a forum is hard work.

]]> By: HART (1-800-HART) http://tdhedengren.com/blog/blogs-and-forums-do-they-match/comment-page-1/#comment-148 HART (1-800-HART) Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:55:26 +0000 http://www.tdhedengren.com/archives/115#comment-148 I read this post and it reminded me of my two forums ... My biggest problem isn't deleting the spam posts .. but the enormous amount of users that register to get their website. I deleted 548 names on the battling forum (half were banned anyway) and 321 names on the petlvr forum (since sep2006). Going through the memberlist at the shiny forum, it looks like they are having the same problem. I read this post and it reminded me of my two forums … My biggest problem isn’t deleting the spam posts .. but the enormous amount of users that register to get their website. I deleted 548 names on the battling forum (half were banned anyway) and 321 names on the petlvr forum (since sep2006). Going through the memberlist at the shiny forum, it looks like they are having the same problem.

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