(08-12-2024, 11:01 AM)tommag Wrote: I know a little less than nothing about how all this works so rocketfoot will have to chime in here. I do have a few thoughts, however.
Most of the new "members" never activate their accounts so I'd consider them harmless. Between John and I, we ban the spammers pretty quickly. I think that total membership numbers may boost whatever website rankings there are, if so, that doesn't seem like a bad thing.
The Google, bing, etc. bots help direct web searches to this place, making us more likely to be found.
What would really help, in my opinion would be more firearms related content, but I've very little to add in that regard. That would increase the Google/bing etc. web searches to be linked to here, and help get new members with a legitimate interest in the platform to sign up. We sure could use a few like Tackleberry and Augie (God rest his soul) to get things moving better. I think a lot of visitors from web searches look around, find little content, and move on.
I get your point about the lack of enough gun content. I think the problem there is that we don't have enough members from the old place to provide it. Aside from my post about the Fusion barrel, I just haven't done anything gun related worth posting about. I hope to change that in the near future. Having all these fake members worries me. We got hacked too many times before the old place died.
Terry
