Sci Forums question

[Magical Realist]

Anyone who wants to look into what actually happened now has the ability to do so.

Yep...they sure will!

[Mr Doodlebug]

Interesting graph here:
http://www.trafficestimate.com/sciforums.com

Well done SF mods!

[cluelusshusbund]

Interesting graph here:
http://www.trafficestimate.com/sciforums.com

Well done SF mods!

I wonder if that 145,000 figure for March 2015 takes into account all the socks they have.???

[Mr Doodlebug]

Socks. That will be the subject of my first thread when I post on May 1st or thereabouts.
I fear however, that they are set on a course, and can't change.
They are on a downhill path.

SF was once full both of more extreme alternative theorists and better scientists.
What happened?

[cluelusshusbund]

SF was once full both of more extreme alternative theorists and better scientists.
What happened?

Zox must be imcompetent or dont give a sht... an i lean toward incompetent.!!!  

[Mr Doodlebug]

I'll pm you.

[C C]

Zox must be imcompetent or dont give a sht... an i lean toward incompetent.!!! 

The following was posted in Feb/2008, so the "Golden Days" of SF may have been months/years earlier than that or perhaps even a mythical retcon of community memory.

Zarlock: Oh, I was just wondering if the person(s) paying for this site realized what a ****hole it has been turned into by worthless mods.

Hercules Rockefeller: Can SciForums please institute a new policy whereby anyone who starts bitching and whining about how **itty SciForums has become is instantly permabanned?

Zarlock was banned after 166 posts. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causality, though.

Pseudo rings of pseudo[nym], so was the triad of Zox, Pseudo, and Plazma the same person or three separate individuals? Plazma's seemingly patented response to such matters: "It's not secret. It's been answered several times ('Search' is useful tool)."

[stryder]

If you search for Sciforums through Google you'll find that there is some spammy shoe seller that's rigged up a script to pull the sciforums site/posts and place it under a myriad of other domain names. (It's possible that its botnet related) Loading the contents through that page will either make any password you use insecure there or it will just point you at a page selling shoes. (A fix would be to the forum to run using HTTPS/SSL)

I'm not sure how it effects traffic but since most of those sites will likely get blacklisted for their spam or potential threat level, it might inturn effect their site positioning.

[Mr Doodlebug]

So they are hacking into peoples sites and leaving bits of SF there?

[stryder]

Well it appears that the sites (and there is hundreds of them) have a specific parser script that is used primarily to serve a shoe selling page, however they've been rigged to probably use Curl to pull pages from sciforums through that script, especially if search engines follow them. They likely do this because a large forum with an exponential exchange of keywords likely grants them higher search positions than just "cheap knock-off shoes".

The problem of course is that anything you post at sciforums you can ask to potentially have removed if you so wish. If a myriad of sites are acting as "unofficial" and quite possibly a "security risk", then it's far harder to strike at anything you might want removed. (I guess it could be possible to ask Google and other search engines to omit the results if you happen to be the poster, but you might have problems if it's required for the website in question to ask for the purge considering the potential legal disclaimers.)