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anemo
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If someone has less than 20 posts, they should not be able to post links. Bonus points if it's a shadow blocking where no one sees it except the poster.
Maybe require a captcha to post something with a link if you're under 100 posts.
Start reporting the spam: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en Essentially the people monitoring their bots are also monitoring how their spam efforts affect their page rank. Once they start seeing it nose dive they'll leave the site alone.
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They're not targeting your users. They're targeting to increase the page rank of what they're spamming. This helps them quite a bit, but it'll also damage MMORPG.COM's page rank by those links being on the site AND having been reported by other webmasters/Google's automation.
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Good idea about not being to post links, which should not be allowed at all until they make at least 20 posts.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR