Reply To: Energy output calculations?

[vansig]

Rezwan wrote:
Now, lets think about this. Everyone’s out there, trying to get a linkback to their sites. Desperate for attention. As are we, of course. We’re all in this boat. So…they’re signing up for a membership account to pepper with links. Now – what human looks at other people’s membership profiles? Not enough to get any real attention, I’d think.

Robots might scan them and tally them.

How effective is this strategy?

I certainly want our legitimate members to be able to share things (links) about themselves to their hearts content. I don’t want to install a freeze on linkbacks from our forum.

So…I guess we’ll just make membership more rigorous.

Desperation is an empty shell of baffles, traversed by zombies.

Real content filters by quality. Your current policy of ’email response demonstrating knowledge’ is an excellent filter. As a newbie I felt nervous (“would i be allowed to qualify to join?”), and therefore promise to make any link i add relevant, and survivable; because if, in future, any of these become stale, then it degrades the forum’s quality.

So,
if we can have captchas AND email response AND people scrutinizing the links we add, AND modding down irrelevant or stale links, then this resource can remain cohesive and valuable in the long term.