Posting URLs?

[KimmoA]

I realize that you don't like URLs being posted.

Is there any forum category on this forum that you allow this to be done in? I am asking because it'd be great to get feedback from you all on new (and old) projects.

If there is no such thing (yes, I have tried to look), maybe you could consider it?

[bill]

Our TOS [webmasterworld.com] is pretty clear on this:

#21
We do not allow review my site posts. It is impossible to deduce which posts are honest requests and which are promotional.

[Brett_Tabke]

For a deeper answer, read through the classic:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[KimmoA]

Our TOS is pretty clear on this

Yeah. I know. That's why I asked for a "free" forum category.

[Sarah Atkinson]

If you did have a "free formum" could the forum not be googable so that physical link postings would not help their rep but only members opinions of the merit of the post?

and it would be nice to have someplace for (hey review my site) type posts. Maybe some part that isn't archivable. and withan enter at your own risk. of course I'm also not seeing this from the for profit sector so I guess I have a slightly rose tent view of the deal.

[brakthepoet]

I think grandpa said it best:

...I've invited a few people from this forum to visit my site for a specific reason or problem. (But not in public.) You know what I've discovered? Most of them have enough to do already and they don't have time to scour thousands of lines of code (I write big ugly php scripts) looking for my mistakes. It's easy to forget (or not even realize) that many of the contributors of this forum are professionals, with schedules, deadlines, bureauracies, families and lives, and still they manage to help out here. It's probably not fair to drag them around the web for every problem that pops up.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/2866.htm [webmasterworld.com]

[KimmoA]

brakthepoet: Who said anything about code correction? Talking about general stuff and only related to the client side (no server-side scripting -- there's a forum category for that).

[brakthepoet]

Who said anything about code correction? Talking about general stuff and only related to the client side (no server-side scripting -- there's a forum category for that).

Fine. Instead of "thousands of lines of code", change it to site layout, color combinations, word choices, ad positions, image sizes, text sizes, or anything else for the client side. Nothing in that statement loses any of its accuracy or wisdom. Every topic can still be answered in the forums without resorting to URL drops.

There is a long history of the URL drop issue, going all the way back to when Webmasterworld was still in its infancy:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/33.htm [webmasterworld.com]

And it continued to be an issue:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/678.htm [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/4444.htm [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/2488.htm [webmasterworld.com]
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/2607.htm [webmasterworld.com] (be sure to read msg #7 in this one to see Webmasterworld's very brief foray into the site reviews/URL drops)
And those are just the handful I could remember off the top of my head.

If you haven't read the post that Brett links to above, go back and read it. It's likely the best examination of the URL drop issue anywhere on the web.

[Leosghost]

KimmoA ..What you are asking for is much more in the line of what is done in google groups ..But ..with the exceprtion of one or two members here who also post there the general quality of posting there is not at all of the same calibre..
One of the reasons IMO is precisely that when a forum allows "sigs" and "url drops" etc for ( whatever reason ..and wether the individual threads be spiderable or not ) the quality will be lower than without these things ...

And as grandpa was getting at ..most people who have opinions worth anything on the subject of specific sites are already being paid to express and explain them ..as consultants etc

[KimmoA]

Leosghost: I guess... but they give free "support" here still, don't they?

[trillianjedi]

but they give free "support" here still, don't they?

No. At least, I don't see it that way and I don't think you'll actually get the best value out of WebmasterWorld looking at it that way.

I've learned pretty much all I know here through talking to people and discussing topics in general form of priniciples. More often than not, that's not in my own threads.

It's the general principles that are important. You can interpret those in your own way and apply them to your site in your own way - that's the right thing for you to do. It then doesn't require a review by anyone. If the principles on which it's built are right, then it's right.

I can start a thread and ask a question (and often need to), but I've learned far more from reading other peoples questions and getting involved in the thread chipping in with the bits that I can answer and do know. Or think I know (and so soliciting debate).

Often I learn something vital that I didn't even realise I needed to know. Knowledge like that does not come from asking questions or seeking support.

TJ

[KimmoA]

Sorry. I didn't mean "support" in that sense. Bad choice of word.

[Sarah Atkinson]

One forum which I am signed up (although I usualy spend more time here) They did a deal. people had I think 24 hours to post their URLs then one of the moderators reviewed their site and posted the rieview. It was very helpfull. Of course that forum is very different then this one. Most of us there are in the same indestry (maybe 3 or 4 different ones post there) and even though we do the same thing and target the similar groups of people, there is very little or no compatition. (I love this indestry) Also the rieview was only one acsessability and how well the site targets our targeted audiance. Her sujestions weren't the only thing I found helpfull but also what she had to say both good and bad aboult others sites as well.

Considering the array of of people and indestrys on this site I doubt such a review could be done. To each there own.

[decaff]

There appears to be a surge in requests for forum posters coming around again...I am seeing plenty of this in some of the work related resources I visit and research...so keep an eye open for more of this to happen and perhaps in even more subtle and devious ways then the link Brett posted early in this thread from a 2002 thread on this topic...

It is simply a matter of time till the spammers (the early spammer adopters and then second, third, fourth generation..etc.. spammers) test the waters again...

This has been the model online since I can remember ... exploit whatever brings traffic ... the classic is the site logs referral exploit...man.. those adult/gambling spammers will stop at nothing...