How many members of yours came from Google?
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Paragon
Not really sure, good question to ask the members of out boards.
Black Angel
Resident
Quite a bit, though the ones that did ended up being banned for spamming because they were spambots.
Black Angel
Resident
I have one member, who googled for forums, and ended up on a PB topsite, which had my old PB url listed, that he followed to my old forum, read the offline notice and followed the link to the forum I have now and almost didn't join because he thought it was a Twilight forum, until he read the info box on my portal and decided to join.
He's very active, and an excellent member, who apparently likes to tease me throughout the forum for being a NY'er and a Yankee fan, and I return the fire since he's a Bostonite and a Sox fan.. :lol:
Does that count?
I have some who said they came from Google that are boomerangs (members who visit, disappear and return later) and some are Judy Winslows (members who were once active, but then disappear like Jaime Foxworth did (who played Judy Winslow) on the sitcom, Family Matters.)
I've also had members, who suggested that I consider not banning those who say "Google" in the referrer box because it is a legitimate source of traffic. I removed that bit, but I originally had it there because of the spambots and was about 90% effective.
The other 10% put stuff like "Black Angel's wife" or my personal fave, "Mr. Nest's brother" completely unaware of the fact that I am not Gay, so I don't have a wife, and I'm married to Mr. Nest, and aside from my siblings, which are his by marriage, he's an only child.
So I usually have a good, hard laugh, and then I wild card ban their ip and account because both Stop Forum Spam and Project HoneyPot search results from my Mod CP tools have confirmed that they are a spambot, and then I add their website to my word filters.
I am thinking of banning by country because I've noticed that the bots are coming from the same few countries.
He's very active, and an excellent member, who apparently likes to tease me throughout the forum for being a NY'er and a Yankee fan, and I return the fire since he's a Bostonite and a Sox fan.. :lol:
Does that count?
I have some who said they came from Google that are boomerangs (members who visit, disappear and return later) and some are Judy Winslows (members who were once active, but then disappear like Jaime Foxworth did (who played Judy Winslow) on the sitcom, Family Matters.)
I've also had members, who suggested that I consider not banning those who say "Google" in the referrer box because it is a legitimate source of traffic. I removed that bit, but I originally had it there because of the spambots and was about 90% effective.
The other 10% put stuff like "Black Angel's wife" or my personal fave, "Mr. Nest's brother" completely unaware of the fact that I am not Gay, so I don't have a wife, and I'm married to Mr. Nest, and aside from my siblings, which are his by marriage, he's an only child.
So I usually have a good, hard laugh, and then I wild card ban their ip and account because both Stop Forum Spam and Project HoneyPot search results from my Mod CP tools have confirmed that they are a spambot, and then I add their website to my word filters.
I am thinking of banning by country because I've noticed that the bots are coming from the same few countries.
Black Angel
Resident
lol, I guess I shouldn't have rounded up hunh? :lol:
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