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***nigelgatherer*** · 25-08-2010, 08:56 PM

(23-08-2010 11:30 PM)ian Wrote: ...I think these people are just trying to get another place to put thier webpage URL's in order to improve thier search engine ranking....

Yes, that's exactly what it is, but "they" are not doing it, it's firms who have set up in business to increase your search engine optimisation (SEO), so they must employ people to seek out forums on high ranking sites like mine simply to try to include a URL somewhere. I hate these vermin, and I wonder if website owners realise that this is how they're increasing their SEO?

I have to spend time getting rid of these scum, but it's made worse if I have to go away - my three week summer school meant that instead of the usual 200 members, I came back to over five hundred, and sifting through that lot took literally hours. Because I have set the forum so that new registrations must be approved by me - otherwise we'd be infested by the bogies - it means that a genuine registree might have to wait, or worse, be mistakenly deleted.

Ach, it makes you wonder whether it's worth it.