Seo1 - 5:37 pm on Jul 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi Bear

I am sure there maybe a few that can generate 100,000 a day.

I was not painting a broad swipe....what I said was

if you add 100,000 posts to a forum one day it is compared to your site history as well as other websites history

As most forums did not start out adding 100K in posts per day their historical value is used to determine spam.

As far as how can a machine determine value one only need look at the amount of traffic to a website, this can be done by links pointing to a site and "probability analysis" and "trend analysis"

For instance if a search for "webmaster forum" continually brings up WebmasterWorld as the # 1 site then the probablitiy that the user will go to this site is very high, analysis of traffic levels then tells them that indeed WebmasterWorld is a destination site and offers more value than say

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[edited by: lawman at 9:12 pm (utc) on July 31, 2005]