Spurious Alibre forum members?
- Thread starter MilesH
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Strange indeed. If they are legit members whose links have been hacked, one wonders why other members' links have been spared? My guess is that those 'members' were created by a spambot of sorts.
It's probably best not to click the links, it'll generate traffic from this site to those dodgy sites and might just encourage them (hovering your cursor over the links shows you where they go).
Grant
bscott.arc-tech.com
Member
Re: Spurious Alibre forum members?
Those are almost certainly throw-away accounts created by people looking to increase the total number of links to their website. Google ranks pages based on the number of links to the page, and Google (and their search customers like Yahoo) has largely become the interface to the Internet for many people. So scum will resort to just about anything in order to increase their link count.
Blech! :evil:
MilesH said:
Those are almost certainly throw-away accounts created by people looking to increase the total number of links to their website. Google ranks pages based on the number of links to the page, and Google (and their search customers like Yahoo) has largely become the interface to the Internet for many people. So scum will resort to just about anything in order to increase their link count.
Blech! :evil:
Re:
Scott,
I think they are referring to the Memberlist (each member has an option of linking to a website as part of his profile). This was the complaint I had awhile back (at that time some were removed). One of the Administrators will have to remove those members again.
swertel said:
Scott,
I think they are referring to the Memberlist (each member has an option of linking to a website as part of his profile). This was the complaint I had awhile back (at that time some were removed). One of the Administrators will have to remove those members again.
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swertel
Alibre Super User
Ah, I see what you mean. And thanks for using spurious; I had to look that one up.
I'll notify our administrators about the members and have them removed as soon as possible. I think it is time to better control who has membership to this forum. Any ideas on how to limit member access without closing the forums to potential AD users?
It should be possible to write a crawler to visit the member linked pages and parse the text for key words that will result in the link being removed. Users that think there site was removed in error can e-mail for a human review of the site link. Also, perhaps an address or pm box where users can report such activity to the forum admins.
Jim
wfpelletier
Senior Member
Re: Spurious 'Members'
This isn't just happening on this forum. There is at least one non-CAD forum that I am a member of that has been getting 'spammed' by various 'new members'. I have no idea how they get in. I can only imagine that 'spambots' are getting more sophisticated. I guess this is just one more thing for administrators and moderators to deal with.
I frankly look forward to the day when the Internet can be better regulated and 'spamming' is illegal. It boggles the mind to think of the time and resources that are devoted to blocking it.
wfpelletier
This isn't just happening on this forum. There is at least one non-CAD forum that I am a member of that has been getting 'spammed' by various 'new members'. I have no idea how they get in. I can only imagine that 'spambots' are getting more sophisticated. I guess this is just one more thing for administrators and moderators to deal with.
I frankly look forward to the day when the Internet can be better regulated and 'spamming' is illegal. It boggles the mind to think of the time and resources that are devoted to blocking it.
wfpelletier