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Started by Chelagoras The Boulder, June 22, 2017, 04:57:17 AM

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Quote from: Pope Pelvis Flirtini on August 31, 2017, 10:19:54 PM
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Possible Alternative Situation: If we attract too much of the wrong attention, we end up with spam-bots and rule-breakers who would turn this place into a garbage dump, or use up all of the admins' time in their attempts.

I briefly hosted my own backwoods, highly-specialized message board, the only links to which existed on a backwoods Wikipedia page and a backwoods Google Group. It's unbelievable how much bot traffic I was constantly having to fend off.

I'm not a web hosting expert or web designer, nor have I ever administered a website before. But I suspect that that's likely due to the fact that bots are usually run tandem to spiders, which are enumerating every single link on every page, and then visiting each of those pages, and repeating the process. If your message board was technically able to be indexed by Google or any other search engine, I feel like it'd be quite easy for the spider to find your message board, regardless of how obscure it was for the ordinary person. At that point, it comes down to the bot protections you have in place (CAPTCHAS, etc), and the type of message board software you're using, if you didn't code it yourself. Or maybe you simply needed someone constantly blocking and kicking bots like Cain, here.  :lol:
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Quote from: Cain on August 31, 2017, 07:41:58 PM
We already get a lot of bots.  However someone deletes most of them at the signup stage.

I'd help, but I don't have permission to delete unapproved accounts.
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Quote from: PoFP on August 31, 2017, 10:35:01 PM
Quote from: Pope Pelvis Flirtini on August 31, 2017, 10:19:54 PM
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Possible Alternative Situation: If we attract too much of the wrong attention, we end up with spam-bots and rule-breakers who would turn this place into a garbage dump, or use up all of the admins' time in their attempts.

I briefly hosted my own backwoods, highly-specialized message board, the only links to which existed on a backwoods Wikipedia page and a backwoods Google Group. It's unbelievable how much bot traffic I was constantly having to fend off.

I'm not a web hosting expert or web designer, nor have I ever administered a website before. But I suspect that that's likely due to the fact that bots are usually run tandem to spiders, which are enumerating every single link on every page, and then visiting each of those pages, and repeating the process. If your message board was technically able to be indexed by Google or any other search engine, I feel like it'd be quite easy for the spider to find your message board, regardless of how obscure it was for the ordinary person. At that point, it comes down to the bot protections you have in place (CAPTCHAS, etc), and the type of message board software you're using, if you didn't code it yourself. Or maybe you simply needed someone constantly blocking and kicking bots like Cain, here.  :lol:

Yeah, no, the person constantly blocking and kicking was me, and the captchas from that particular board implementation were probably easier than a prom queen.

It makes sense that spiders would make no qualms about going anywhere and everywhere. When you think like a robot, all of the web is fair game. Actually, speaking of Google indexing, old threads in this forum pop up as number one under certain searches. To be fair, the search that led me straight back here was "Upright Citizens Brigade Discordian".
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Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 23, 2017, 02:41:32 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 22, 2017, 04:57:17 AM
this is why i'm sincerely hoping we colonize a planet in my lifetime. It's the only semi-possible escape i can see from this madness.

If we can't get our shit together here, we won't be able to get our shit together anywhere else, either. I'm not sure what that would accomplish besides fucking up more planets (which aren't really even ours to fuck up in the first place).

yeah, duh. But imagine the interplanetary football rivalries!