No Longer A "dofollow" Site

To be completely honest, this shouldn't be an 'issue' with anyone that knows what they are doing. A bunch of do-follow signature links, all from the same form are actually quite useless. It looks 'spammy' and it is 'spammy'. When a good chunk of your backlinks all come from the same source, and a forum at that you're better of not having them in my opinion. I prefer this change!

 

Since months I need this valuable information, dears. Thanks for you're share.

 

lmao, ya that's what we need to get rid of. Those posts.

 

Warriorforum is at rank 146
DigitalPoint is at 199 and still decreasing....
is no follow causing this?

 

Premium members have a do-follow signature? So basically what you are telling me is you are selling do-follow links here?

Don't really care lol

 

Lol that's funny. Warrior forum sucks. Very unorganized and it's where all the people banned from here go. They will let you spam or do/sell any blackhat methods/services as long as you pay them. There is NO quality to the warrior forum. They don't even make people follow the rules. Then when you bring it up they talk crap to ya.

 

Old people?! Now you're just gettin' personal. [You'd think everyone in my grad class was in a rocking chair hollering "Get off my lawn!]

 

So you're saying that Warrior is where all the anti-americans and scammers are at now? There's plenty to go around here there and everywhere. I'd imagine its a full time job keeping up with that.

 

Their everywhere I know. I wasn't saying nothing about anti-American if that's what you thought I said.
But ya, warrior forum is full of scammers, spammers and blackhat people more then any other forum I visit.
Full time job keeping up with what?

 

Indy, it was not a poke at you. It was just general sarcasm, again, not directed at you. The truth is, every SUPER POPULAR internet forum on the planet is filled with a little bit of everything, from complete crap, to some really good people. Its just the nature of things when you get as big as some of these forums are. It becomes next to impossible to micromanage it.

I doubt there's any forum out there that has any more or less in terms of the BH people or otherwise. I think that its safe to say that some forums tolerate it a bit more than others.

BTW, you anywhere near Valparaiso? I've got a Raffle Ticket and I think I have to be there to turn it in. Trying to find someone I can send it to that's going to the show down there..

 

very true. and ya, some do tolerate more (that's why I don't use them).
No, I'm in Indianapolis. That's about a 2 hour drive.

 

Why and how can tattoos has 5 live links in signature ( which is more surprising than the fact all of them are do-follow )

 

This question was wobbling in my mind for months. Just dared to ask Thanks.

 

LOL. I must have sorted it out myself.
And in the regard of the theme of the topic of discussion of this thread, what is your opinion of distracting Avatars like Sarahk's

I mean you may nofollow a link in signature, but how can you not follow that running man for a minute or two?

 

Shaun, kudos on the move! Seriously.

OK, I know there's some dissent in this thread (not all of which I've read) but, frankly, people who are members of a forum purely for the links are members not worth having. They might have thousands of posts, they might be useful contributors but, ultimately, if they're there purely for the links and not for the ability to participate in discussions and interact with other members they are just a notch above the "thank you dear" posters. No personal offence meant to dcristo (whose posts I do enjoy) or anyone else.

Cheap SEOs making pointless fluff posts just to link-drop have become endemic. It would improve the quality on these boards no end if you castrate the lot of them - as you've done here - in one fell swoop.

I own a webmaster forum myself and all signatures are dofollow for all members, but mine is a different situation because members have to prove they're there for the discussion and not the links; the first time they make a fluff post their account gets deleted! Before they get a signature they have to pass an entrance test, have a minimum IQ and, if female, be a 34D or above (OK, the last bit ain't true ). For a forum like DP with no minimum quality requirements on individual posts beyond the few characters vB demands, you've got to have some sort of condom in place!

So, again, good move! Long overdue, IMHO.

 

Naahh,

He will remove the nofollow state in a couple months or years after realising his loosing lot's of members and money perhaps. So spammers you just keep up with your great work .

I have been on your forum though if it's the one in signature and I think you managed to control the spam very well. I joined once and it was almost impossible to stay. Probably every single member from your members count is an active member.

I do own forums myself and have recently just changed one of the forums from the dofollow to nofollow.