MrFlicks
Sunday 2nd October 2011 1:00pm [Edited]
Lincoln
29 posts
Quote: ShoePie @ October 2 2011, 11:48 AM BST
Even less so.
Is this just some elaborate SEO spam?
The forum on your website reads like an idiot spam bot talking to itself whilst randomly throwing in keyword rich facts. Check out these geniuses: http://tvworlds.com/forum/threads/492-American-Idol
Eh dya reckon that thread might be a spam bot then? Hmm gonna have to look into that and check their IP's etc and see if I can suss that out.
I was wondering about the amount of posters with DVD things in their sigs and presumed it was just because they associated DVD's with TV etc and so posted.
Must admit those with DVD links in their sigs have been annoying. My Mrs keeps mentioning that she thinks something funny is going on but I never really looked into it as have been busy.
Time to dig a little deeper and maybe do some banning or something me thinks as we work really hard squashing spam on there as it is one of the biggest problems when trying to run a forum.
I hate seeing all those fly by's posting on forums with one liners of crap just to get their damn sig links in.
Myself if I can't find a reason to post on a forum I don't post as if it is just about getting sig links in then the person isn't going to contribute to any conversation only to confuse things with their one liners.
Something I apply to myself on others forums to. If I went to a forum and the only reason to post there is for sig links- well that's just not on in my books.
One thing I may point out though is that it is a pity that type of thing is associating SEO with Spam forum posting.
Proper SEO has nothing to do with thta type of behaviour.
I think we can blame Google for that though as it is their Pagerank System that made such importance of backlinks that has caused a lot of the linking spam you see on the net.
This includes forums, blogs, any interactive site and all those link farms and directories full of list after list of links.
@ShoePie thanks for pointing that view out as suspecting something was wrong and my Mrs agreeing and mentioning it now has someone else adding to our suspicions, so saying, I better take a good look at those members this afternoon to see if it is indeed some sort of bot or something.
Strange if it is though as I thought the sign up was pretty much anti bot tbh. EEK if it is not.
PS you can't see those "Genius's" nor their DVD sig links now. Thread squashed and investigating those members further!
PPS Feedback this end is rather different to here on the forum. My Nephew had a 14th Birthday party yesterday and the 50 plus attendees aged 14 to 18 thought the Ricky Gervais cartoon Teddy Bear was really good and funny.
Those that read the thread afterwards thought it was hilarious, though the silly Pigeon thing went down the best (The Age groups I guess) especially the Girls rather interestingly.
Most we're more amused by the bemused responses as they got it and found it highly amusing nobody replying did.
Some of the comments banded about we're somewhat 18+ for 14 to 18 year old's tbh.
The "Obviously" catch phrase inclusion went over their heads as it did here.
All in all an interesting observation to the experiment outside of TVWorlds we're spoof threads are now being made regularly.
As the 14 to 18 year old age group is one of the main target age age groups (among a few) for the Double T Ted's cartoon characters a very satisfactory exercise overall.
So far it seems seeing the cartoon first is preferable on such endeavours which is something handy picked up from this first spoof report outside of the DTT TVW forum.
