Forum members fearing for their privacy
 

Seriously, people bother me sometimes. Moreso often than sometimes.

I run a mainstream niche board which has picked up in pace quite a bit since its launch in September. Almost 900 members and 15k posts. Now there's a couple of members who complained that when you search on Google for their board nick, you can find all of their posts indexed in Google. They've voiced the wish that I block Google from the board or make the threads only accessible for members.

Now what the fuck am I supposed to say to that? "You're all retards, stfu and welcome to teh interweb?" Fuckin idiots. :disgust

"Now what the fuck am I supposed to say to that? "You're all retards, stfu and welcome to teh interweb?" Fuckin idiots."

Sounds about right.

Create a private subscription based forum section, where they can post without worry of a googlebot getting in.

Put a note about privacy issues on signup page and offer to delete nicks if they do not want to be listed.

How is showing your nickname an invasion of privacy. I thought nicknames were created to protect your privacy.

Post some of their nicknames in this thread then watch all the fun when Google does it next crawl of GFY :1orglaugh

That'll teach the moaning fuckers ;)

Regards,

Lee

do a google for "robots.txt"

you can exclude googlebot

Yah i'm sure he knows that, but nobody wants to ban google from their site :2 cents:

that would be like saying you don't want SE traffic

tell them to grow the fuck up and stop beening girls :) :thumbsup

who isnt bothered by people