Please Read This Before Starting Another Thread

[simonbuzz]

I am sick and tired of reading spam posts they all ask the same question thousands of time so I thought through This post I can help this forum to stay clean from spammers.

Before starting a post first use the forum search option to find what you are looking for if you don't find anything useful then you can open a thread about it.

Just for this spam posts many senior warrior are leaving this forum so this is a great loss for all of us so I will request you to please use this forum the right way don't come here to just put your links on your signature.

[pearsonbrown]

I deleted over 300 spam posts today. Keep reporting them.

Pearson

[markowe]

OP, I'm totally with you man, but these people have an agenda and they really don't care about this forum. We really need to be appealing to MEMBERS to recognise these spam posts as such and start reporting them! At the moment it seems like most members just don't realise these endlessly repeated questions are often just an excuse to drop a sig link.

If you see someone with like 3 posts to their name (or 200 in the last hour - you can check that via their username dropdown) asking "What is SEO?" and they have 5 different keyword links in their sig then YES, IT'S SPAM, END OF! Don't RESPOND TO THE THREAD trying to help them, they are timewasters! Even if they were genuine, as OP says, they should Google it - obviously, it's basic forum etiquette. So either way, report it and make it go away - many of us are definitely really sick of it, but as Paul Myers I think said in another thread, it's only the same 5 or 6 members reporting it most of the time. At the moment, the SEO section of the WF is EASY PICKINGS for forum spammers, and they know it, and are mostly getting away with it...

[timpears]

You are not going to stop spam posters. All we can do is report them.

Personally when I use the search function is doesn't bring up much about what I am looking for most of the time. It seems to search for each of the words in my search string, rather than the full search string. Therefore I get mostly stuff that I am not looking for. Whether or not I put it in quotes.

[pearsonbrown]

I quite agree with what you say. That is why I volunteered to come in here.

Believe it or not, the Reviews section used to be much worse than this. What Bev, Ken and I did was to keep zapping the spammers until they realised that they were wasting their time. Once the quantity of posts had gone down, it was easier to improve the quality of the threads. We still get spammers but they are easy to spot and moderate.

So I'd like everybody to report every spam, pointless or repetitive post they see.

Pearson

[pearsonbrown]

The search function is not great. As you know, Tim, in the Reviews section many senior members will post links in threads to similar previous threads. That helps me a lot to tidy things up.


Pearson

[markowe]

Originally Posted by timpears

Personally when I use the search function is doesn't bring up much about what I am looking for most of the time. It seems to search for each of the words in my search string, rather than the full search string. Therefore I get mostly stuff that I am not looking for. Whether or not I put it in quotes.

Yeah, the vBulletin search is pretty basic, as are the search functions of most web applications. It simply isn't very smart. There is a vastly superior search engine out there, we all know its name... Because the entirety of WF is indexed by Google, all you have to do is Google for:

"site:warriorforum.com what is seo" or even just "warrior forum what is seo"

...and you will get all the info you ever needed

[JoshuaG]

No offense but I pretty much consider OP's post to be spam.

This issue has already been discussed as per the original thread posted by yukon that resulted in all the stickies and brought the good people like personbrown here to bring the hammer down.

I highly doubt OP was unaware of said thread and is simply jumping on the bandwagon with the added "twist" of adding a poll.

[timpears]

Originally Posted by markowe

Yeah, the vBulletin search is pretty basic, as are the search functions of most web applications. It simply isn't very smart. There is a vastly superior search engine out there, we all know its name... Because the entirety of WF is indexed by Google, all you have to do is Google for:

"site:warriorforum.com what is seo" or even just "warrior forum what is seo"

...and you will get all the info you ever needed

Yes I agree. If I am really trying hard to find something, I will do the site:warriorforum.com "keyword" search, when I remember that is. At my age, memory isn't like it used to be.