Here's an idea I thought I'd mention just to see what every body thinks. Whenever a spammer from Russia, Brazil, India or China attack your forum with porn and gambling links and rubbish content login under your admin account to edit their messages to "This spammer loves my forum so much that he and his cohorts are indirectly helping my forum to become popular. My forum memberships are increasing daily. My forum post count is increasing daily. My Alexa traffic rank is moving up daily. Thus the overall visibility of my site is improving daily. Thank you very much spammer for helping my success. In return I'm deleting your rubbish links. And leave you with a reminder that you would have been better off introducing your self to our community and publishing your links in an area I've designated for spam postings!" Any comments?
Managing Forum Spam
- Thread starter barutiwa
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I don't like that idea, because your goal should be to stop these spammers, and by doing that you're only feeding them attention. No one wants to join an forum with loads of spam links and crap on there. That's likely to get your forum more negative attention than positive attention. I wouldn't even try it.
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Madly Diligent
I delete spam. I don't "manage" it.
Yeah, this. I don't think you should be taking advantage of useless posts, hiding them and then increasing your post count. There may be a time when the total post count is clearly different from the visible post count and people will question it.찬양 김일성 said:
The thing about spam is it bothers the members you do have. Anything that irritates my members I try my best to remove or minimise. People tend to avoid spam filled sites; you're best off installing a spam guard so you can devote your time to things that better your forum in a much more productive way.
Yes but, if you leave spam just sitting there on your forum, that's not very responsible. You could turn away potential members from wanting to join at all, and no one likes going to a forum only to realize it's just one major spam fest more than anything. This is something that would turn me off in a hurry, no matter how nice or attractive a forum looks. You need content to make your forum successful, but not that kind of content, though.
In this regards, Ashley, what do you think about www.freeadsplanet.com?
Ashley said:
That's not a valid example though. It's can't be considered spam when it's a free online classified ads forum, just like how you would find one in a newspaper. It's not a forum for discussion; just to post ads as that's the aim of the forum.barutiwa said:
Do you understand what classified advertisements are? Sure it's spam if your forum topic is about gaming or graphics, but if the aim is for classified advertisements then it's not genuine spam that you would see on forums like FP.barutiwa said:
Why are there hundreds of these sites if you think Google should ban or do something about it? (ie. search "free classifieds forums"). I think it really comes down to your understanding of spam. You may not like it on your forum, but is your forum for placing ads on it? No, but if your forum was for ads only, then how could the admin treat it as spam?
Spam really is only affected by Google if it is either illegal or off topic to the site. If neither suffices, then it's not going to affect how Google sees the site. Also, Google has a classified ads section: http://www.google.com/Top/
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barutiwa said:
This isn't a good idea, your just increasing the amount of spam that gets through, although your trying to be cocky and make something of the spam messages, if you let these through half your forum posts will be filled by these messages which mean nothing. No.
juststeven
Madly Diligent
I did this sent spam to a hidden Basket and when I decided to get rid of it I got rid of over 1k posts so don't do that.
DavidL said:
I agree. If it's classified ads, I don't consider that spam as that's what that particular forum is about. However, if it's a forum that doesn't deal with those kinds of ads, like here or my forum, then I would consider it spam. It's all down to what the subject of the forum is about.
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