Does your forum allow dofollow sigs?

Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by usasportstraining, Feb 23, 2008.

  1. #1
    I'm compiling a list of Dofollow forums and would like you to add yours.

    So, go to this thread. :)
     
    usasportstraining, Feb 23, 2008 IP
  2. yogesh sarkar

    yogesh sarkar Well-Known Member

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    And get tons spammers?
     
    yogesh sarkar, Feb 23, 2008 IP
  3. usasportstraining

    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    If your forum is well moderated and has a policy of the sigs not being allowed until the 100th post (or something like that), then you shouldn't be dealing with spam too much.

    There are plenty of big forums that allow dofollow sigs and don't appear to be having a problem.
     
    usasportstraining, Feb 23, 2008 IP
  4. yogesh sarkar

    yogesh sarkar Well-Known Member

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    All my forums have dofollow signature, however most people going after the dofollow list of blogs and forums are those who want to spam, learned it the hard way by making my blog comment links dofollow (which are now nofollow).
     
    yogesh sarkar, Feb 24, 2008 IP
  5. SticKer

    SticKer Well-Known Member

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    Yup i allow dofollow sigs in my forum. Added my link to your post. Plz add it to your list.
     
    SticKer, Feb 24, 2008 IP
  6. etali

    etali Well-Known Member

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    No signatures until a certain number of posts might be a good idea... I want to allow dofollow signatures in my forum, but when I tried it for a while I got a lot of people joining and posting 'Hi, welcome :)' in the introductions section a few times, then nothing else :(

    I wish people wouldn't abuse it when their fellow webmasters offered a little help in the form of do follow comment and sig links.
     
    etali, Mar 29, 2008 IP
  7. Bryce

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    I've never had any problem with dofollow signatures on my one forum with over 9,000 members
     
    Bryce, Apr 1, 2008 IP
  8. Shazz

    Shazz Prominent Member

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    Most public forums do.
    Most private forums do.
     
    Shazz, Apr 1, 2008 IP
  9. ninjashoes

    ninjashoes Well-Known Member

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    I get alot of relentless spammers selling nike shoes from china, I moderate all new members but they go ahead and wait a day until I approve them and the spam away. Its really annoying I wonder what software they are using.
     
    ninjashoes, Apr 2, 2008 IP
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    @ninjashoes - do you have a list of mail servers of known spammer domains to filter user signups to your forum?? If you need a decent list PM me. I've had my forum up over two years and I have a good filtering list of email domains that if you ban them on signup, you won't have a problem. For example, every forum admin knows to ban signups with an email at *@mail.ru or *@list.ru - in fact, a lot of forums ban *.ru and *.ca explicitly.

    As a forum admin, you have to be proactive and not protective.
     
    Bryce, Apr 7, 2008 IP