piatkow
msg:3805118 | 2:06 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I imagine that you are worried about search engines seeing too many changes to the site at one time. Maybe a few numbers would help prompt some useful advice.
Are we talking about 50 or 500 or 5000?
How many per page?
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maximillianos
msg:3805349 | 6:35 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
We are talking about 500 or so... no more than 1-2 per page in the "comments" section. Users will often post very helpful links to supplement an article, etc. In the past I never allowed links in comments, so they would just post as text. But now I want to make them more useful, save users having to cut and paste... =) I just hate rocking the boat with big changes all at once. Kind of sucks that you have to think this way sometimes... at least when these sites are your livelyhood...
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maximillianos
msg:3806117 | 2:04 pm on Dec 12, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I decided to just pull the trigger and enable them as normal links. It was the proper thing to do and fitting for how the web is suppose to work. Once a user reaches a trusted status, their links then become active. Until then, they are in the sandbox so to speak... ;-)
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janharders
msg:3808146 | 9:05 pm on Dec 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
If you see any changes in ranking and/or spam-quantity, mind reporting back and letting me know? I'm always eager to know about those things, since I've had two almost identical forum scripts running on two sites. I _know_ by looking at the log-data that the same spambots visited both pages and checked into the forum. they dumped their load in one of them bot not in the other -- the one they dropped their links had urls autoconverted into links and there were a few in every thread, the one they left without action did not autoconvert urls. I'd love to find out if you'll see any changes in spam-quantity.
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maximillianos
msg:3808389 | 5:39 am on Dec 16, 2008 (gmt 0) |
We don't allow visitors to comment unless they register (with email validation). So that alone seems to thwart auto-spam. We of course have to deal with manual spam every day. Which is where this whole dilemma comes in. We also decided to take a different route than mentioned above. After doing a boatload of research, I decided to: 1. Enable links via javascript for established members.
2. Enable any .gov links by default
3. Enable any internal links added by users by default After doing some research, I found that many of the topics on my site often discussed "unsafe" sites, and as a result some comments would inevitably add a link to such sites. I really didn't want to be linking to these bad neighborhoods, but I didn't really have a way to catch them all. So I opted for a javascript solution. It is quite simply. I basically wrap a DIV tag around the text URL. Then I transform it to act like a link via Stylesheets. Then I have a basic javascript function to handle the click. Works like a charm. No more worries about linking to bad neighborhoods from user-comments. And now my links are fully functional.
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