Viewable areas for non-members

[FlyingJesus]

Apparently Spam's been made invisible if you're not logged in now, might I ask what other forums (if any) have similar restrictions and why? It doesn't bother me personally as obviously I am a member, but it looks like we're going the way of "register to view" if more are going to be hidden, and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of intelligent members and staff have advocated against such a thing happening for the past few years, so just wanted to check that we're not suddenly going against common sense and driving traffic away

[Chippiewill]

I believe it is just spam so that people cannot just log out to view it if cautioned.

[Hecktix]

Jin contacted Forum Management yesterday asking for every forum bar staff forums, complaints, spam and become a Habbox Donator be visible to unregistered users. This was something to do with search engines indexing the content, so several other forums which weren't viewable before are now viewable and the spam forum and become habbox donator forum have been hidden.

This isn't a ploy to get people to sign up.

[FlyingJesus]

Fair enough, I'd have thought having search engines index spam would give us a load more traffic and all that but I'm not an expert on such things so guessing Jin knows what he's on about although does that mean papoy is now viewable by guests? I thought that was deemed a paedophile security issue or something

[buttons]

i logged out and post a picture is visible for non-members. are you keeping it like that? cause it was hidden for a rason...

[Hecktix]

PAPOY was hidden for a reason yes but I don't think it was hidden with very good justification, there's nothing stopping a paedophile signing up to this forum whether they are aware of us having a picture thread or not.

[wixard]

jin obviously just has a vendetta against graham and wants him to end his life
which he will if he can't view spam

[Samantha]

PAPOY was hidden for a reason yes but I don't think it was hidden with very good justification, there's nothing stopping a paedophile signing up to this forum whether they are aware of us having a picture thread or not.

So it's not hidden now? Thank you, it was annoying if I ever went on a device other than my laptop if I wanted to see a Chibi post.

[Jin]

Reason why spam was hidden is that search engines have the tendency to skip over things which hit whatever thresholds they set for things marked as "spam". It really is entirely about SEO though I was unfamiliar that PAPOY was in the photography forum of graphics ideally that should be hidden, we will have to see what we do about that it might mean moving it into spam.

[dogboy123]

papoy just gets spammed anyway tbh