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by kestasjk » Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:24 am
by kestasjk » Tue Nov 07, 2023 3:16 am
Esquire Bertissimmo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:42 pm kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:35 pm Esquire Bertissimmo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. What good is a spam-free WebDip with a dwindling player base? This is just for the forum. The analytics don't point to a lot of new users arriving via the forum, but I'll keep an eye on it. The stats are fine btw, staying fairly steady. stats.jpg I guess I'm a rare person who found this site upon seeing a forum post that provided a useful rule clarification. Doing a few unscientific Googling tests, it's surprisingly hard to get WebDip to come up in the results even when searching for things that have been discussed extensively on the forum (and even when using verbatim language copied from forum posts in the search).
kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:35 pm Esquire Bertissimmo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. What good is a spam-free WebDip with a dwindling player base? This is just for the forum. The analytics don't point to a lot of new users arriving via the forum, but I'll keep an eye on it. The stats are fine btw, staying fairly steady. stats.jpg
Esquire Bertissimmo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. What good is a spam-free WebDip with a dwindling player base?
by Esquire Bertissimmo » Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:42 pm
kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:35 pm Esquire Bertissimmo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm Or make it so the forum doesn't get indexed by search engines at all so isn't visible/useful to SEO bots, but that'd reduce the site's visibility also.. I guess I'll give this one a try and see how it goes. Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. What good is a spam-free WebDip with a dwindling player base? This is just for the forum. The analytics don't point to a lot of new users arriving via the forum, but I'll keep an eye on it. The stats are fine btw, staying fairly steady. stats.jpg
Esquire Bertissimmo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm Or make it so the forum doesn't get indexed by search engines at all so isn't visible/useful to SEO bots, but that'd reduce the site's visibility also.. I guess I'll give this one a try and see how it goes. Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. What good is a spam-free WebDip with a dwindling player base?
Or make it so the forum doesn't get indexed by search engines at all so isn't visible/useful to SEO bots, but that'd reduce the site's visibility also.. I guess I'll give this one a try and see how it goes.
by kestasjk » Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:35 pm
by Esquire Bertissimmo » Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm
by kestasjk » Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:42 pm
kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:58 pm JECE wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:32 pm kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:04 am Hmm.. Are they still as bad as before? If so that's annoying, I figured the click-the-countries challenge would surely be unique enough to filter them out.. That means it must be people completing the challenge, which seems like it surely wouldn't be worth it. I just checked the challenge out out of curiosity. I noticed that you can keep tapping/clicking randomly until you pass the test. Maybe have the challenge reset after a certain number of clicks? Hmm.. I doubt that's how the bots are getting through; it'd be weird to code a spam bot to just try randomly clicking a canvas in the hope it'll pass a spam test, and you wouldn't know when it passed. In theory as long as the test is unique to your site it means a spam bot has to be customised to spam your site, and the hope is the customisation isn't worth it to the spam bot developer to be able to spam one extra site. I think next time I see some spam I'll take a deeper look into the account that posted it, and try and see if the registration looked automated or human and go from there. I haven't really noticed any spam recently though (maybe it's just getting cleaned quickly?). jamiet do you have a link to some recent spam?
JECE wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:32 pm kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:04 am Hmm.. Are they still as bad as before? If so that's annoying, I figured the click-the-countries challenge would surely be unique enough to filter them out.. That means it must be people completing the challenge, which seems like it surely wouldn't be worth it. I just checked the challenge out out of curiosity. I noticed that you can keep tapping/clicking randomly until you pass the test. Maybe have the challenge reset after a certain number of clicks?
kestasjk wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:04 am Hmm.. Are they still as bad as before? If so that's annoying, I figured the click-the-countries challenge would surely be unique enough to filter them out.. That means it must be people completing the challenge, which seems like it surely wouldn't be worth it.
by kestasjk » Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:58 pm
by JECE » Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:32 pm
by kestasjk » Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:04 am
by Esquire Bertissimmo » Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:27 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:26 amFunny guy.
by Jamiet99uk » Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:26 am
by Esquire Bertissimmo » Tue Oct 31, 2023 6:13 pm
by Jamiet99uk » Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:22 am
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