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in reply to a message by Rene
It is very sad indeed. :( I also recently noticed, by coincidence, that the boards of BtN are extremely well-crawled by Google. Several days ago, I made a post on one of the forums and when shortly afterwards I googled something related to the content in my post, the post that I had just made was among the search results (either on the 1st or 2nd search result page, I think). This within 5 minutes of having made the post! That's kind of scary. :/
I didn't realise it at the time, but after having just read this post of yours, I understand now what spammers see in this board. Before, I'd be like: "Why here? Isn't this a bit of an obscure place, visitor-wise?". But now I see that, if they post on this board and include a malicious link in their post or signature, the post containing the malicious link will be among Google's top results. :/
I definitely agree that at this point, prevention measures are needed. I can think of a few, though I'm not sure how they would work out in practice. After all, I've never owned a forum, nor have I ever moderated one. I'll let Mike know some of my suggestions, though. :)
I didn't realise it at the time, but after having just read this post of yours, I understand now what spammers see in this board. Before, I'd be like: "Why here? Isn't this a bit of an obscure place, visitor-wise?". But now I see that, if they post on this board and include a malicious link in their post or signature, the post containing the malicious link will be among Google's top results. :/
I definitely agree that at this point, prevention measures are needed. I can think of a few, though I'm not sure how they would work out in practice. After all, I've never owned a forum, nor have I ever moderated one. I'll let Mike know some of my suggestions, though. :)
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