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02-18-2010, 12:51 PM
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 Add nofollow to all links in posts
There are a lot of people spamming here, trying to build links and it's working due to TalkFreelancing not having the nofollow attributes in the links posted by users.
Bottom line is, this place shouldn't be used to build linkbacks for search engines! Fake signatures, signatures with keywords to various sites while the poster is responding to others/making new threads that aren't contributing or making much sense.
Surely this will improve the quality a bit here? 
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02-18-2010, 12:54 PM
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If by "improve the quality" you just mean "reduce the crap", sure. 
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02-18-2010, 05:16 PM
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Well, less crap is better quality in my books but yes, indeed, reduce the crap
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02-18-2010, 05:37 PM
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Or increase the amount of moderators to find and kill these posts in their infancy.
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02-18-2010, 05:45 PM
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Why on earth will this increase the post quality? The net effort in spamming a forum is very low, and people looking to promote their site are unlikely to check every forum is not nofollow ('dofollow' is stupid), so you'll still get most of the spam. What it *will* do is stop the spammers from benefiting.
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02-18-2010, 06:06 PM
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It may stop the effect of what they are trying to do, but it will not stop the spammers themselves. As 46bit said, spammers do not carefully research their targets. All I could see it doing is making it harder for legitimatemembers to get backlinks.
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02-18-2010, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisGwynne 
Or increase the amount of moderators to find and kill these posts in their infancy.
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LOL that just made my day. Thanks Chris. 
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02-18-2010, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Salathe
LOL that just made my day. Thanks Chris. |
Ok, why?
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02-18-2010, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisGwynne
Ok, why?
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You message could have been taken as telling us we are not doing our job well. I'm not saying that is what you said, I'm saying it could be taken that way.
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02-18-2010, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Village Genius
You message could have been taken as telling us we are not doing our job well. I'm not saying that is what you said, I'm saying it could be taken that way.
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No no, I didn't even think of that. I'm merely stating more moderators will help to stop the spam thread/links, as there is periods when no moderator on the board etc.
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