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blacksmithden
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There are, but the technology is always evolving. You plug a hole, and they find another.
harbl_the_cat
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A lot of those "guests" are people who find public GOC posts through web searches.
Over the years, I've gone back and found my old posts simply by Googling topics I posted about before.
That's one way for a forum like this to grow - by having good, public content that's easily search engine optimized.
The downside is anyone can find it, theoretically.
The upside is most people who find it will find it based on topics that they can find through a google search and a lot of the traffic will be focused on that content to begin with.
I stumbled upon an ANTIFA forum that is also public a few months ago but I doubt that anyone here would be able to find simply because the odds of most people here searching for easily search topics that those people talk about is quite low.
Also I was doing some very advanced hackery to find them... it's seriously like going into the twilight zone seeing what some of those guys talk about. They talk a lot about the same sort of gun related stuff we talk about, but then they go on Doxxing witch hunts, reputation and career assassination, coordinate boycotts with leftists political groups, and of course, organize riots... it's REALLY creepy.
I'm pretty sure the site operator here know which forums get the most traffic and keep those open for search indexing. It's a good strategy to promote growth.
A good way to make money is to have private forums that are only accessible to logged in members OR that can only be found by sharing links. Both have different use cases that can be used to generate growth, revenue, and community.
Interestingly, YouTube does this too. There's 4 different states for YouTube videos from monetized partners: Public, Private, Unlisted, and Membership. Public is optimized for Google / YouTube search. Private and Membership are by creator invitation only, and unlisted is by shared link only.
This is how web content naturally organizes itself into surface / deep web layers of the internet.
Interesting to know is that content can be both public and deep web. It all boils down to SEO. In that scenario, from a practical standpoint it's almost as good as being secured and unindexable by a search engine.
Over the years, I've gone back and found my old posts simply by Googling topics I posted about before.
That's one way for a forum like this to grow - by having good, public content that's easily search engine optimized.
The downside is anyone can find it, theoretically.
The upside is most people who find it will find it based on topics that they can find through a google search and a lot of the traffic will be focused on that content to begin with.
I stumbled upon an ANTIFA forum that is also public a few months ago but I doubt that anyone here would be able to find simply because the odds of most people here searching for easily search topics that those people talk about is quite low.
Also I was doing some very advanced hackery to find them... it's seriously like going into the twilight zone seeing what some of those guys talk about. They talk a lot about the same sort of gun related stuff we talk about, but then they go on Doxxing witch hunts, reputation and career assassination, coordinate boycotts with leftists political groups, and of course, organize riots... it's REALLY creepy.
I'm pretty sure the site operator here know which forums get the most traffic and keep those open for search indexing. It's a good strategy to promote growth.
A good way to make money is to have private forums that are only accessible to logged in members OR that can only be found by sharing links. Both have different use cases that can be used to generate growth, revenue, and community.
Interestingly, YouTube does this too. There's 4 different states for YouTube videos from monetized partners: Public, Private, Unlisted, and Membership. Public is optimized for Google / YouTube search. Private and Membership are by creator invitation only, and unlisted is by shared link only.
This is how web content naturally organizes itself into surface / deep web layers of the internet.
Interesting to know is that content can be both public and deep web. It all boils down to SEO. In that scenario, from a practical standpoint it's almost as good as being secured and unindexable by a search engine.
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If those 'guests' have not been invited, then they are technically party crashers.
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There's always bots trying to get in, but there's a whole boat load of folks who just come here to see what's being said without really posting much.....half are probably CSIS spooks. HI BOB !!
(not RangeBob) LOL.At the time of writing: "There are currently 481 users online. 9 members and 472 guests"
Dearest GOC owner, are you paying attention? I realize there's an admin and mods here running the show for you. But since you took over the place and some other member announced that big changes were coming...crickets.
Lock this place down, please. No, not a la covid lockdowns. Lock the front door and give the key to members only.
Dearest GOC owner, are you paying attention? I realize there's an admin and mods here running the show for you. But since you took over the place and some other member announced that big changes were coming...crickets.
Lock this place down, please. No, not a la covid lockdowns. Lock the front door and give the key to members only.
Dewey Cox
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What difference would it make?
It's not like you have to send in your social insurance number to get a membership here
It's not like you have to send in your social insurance number to get a membership here
It's an added layer.
Sure, bots are sophisticated these days, but anything helps. And it's not just the bots. It's the bad actors. Sure it's easy to create a free account and just lurk. Many people do it. But a serious forum admin can monitor IP addresses and activity. Yes, you can use a VPN, but there are other ways to fingerprint.
Better than a mere account creation though, is a system where members in good standing have to vouch for new members. There are options to help clean up the place. Mind you, there more than just a clean-up needed here. But it seems the powers that be are more interested in advertising deals on the competing forum.
Anyway. Food for thought.
OK Awndray and others who want to restrict access, analyze me.
I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I think overall my contributions here haven't been detrimental.
I just follow the same rule wherever I go on the wild & woolly web... I don't say anything thru the keyboard that I wouldn't say in person.
Having a front end that requires signup before even browsing a topic of interest is a non-starter for me, I move on.
I suspect many eyeballs have the same opinion, given the glut of information that is always just a keystroke away.
And a vouch system? There are actual gun clubs I won't go near due to that stuffy attitude.
In my world, everyone gets a chance to prove who they are by their actions.
Anything less is a thought-crime scenario. I won't be part of it.
I stumbled across this forum by following a daisy chain of links that started with something posted on the 'other' forum -
It was free to check out, so I became interested. The culture here is on the whole, more agreeable here and so I spend far more time here than the other place. Kudos to the mods for keeping it sane.
I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I think overall my contributions here haven't been detrimental.
I just follow the same rule wherever I go on the wild & woolly web... I don't say anything thru the keyboard that I wouldn't say in person.
Having a front end that requires signup before even browsing a topic of interest is a non-starter for me, I move on.
I suspect many eyeballs have the same opinion, given the glut of information that is always just a keystroke away.
And a vouch system? There are actual gun clubs I won't go near due to that stuffy attitude.
In my world, everyone gets a chance to prove who they are by their actions.
Anything less is a thought-crime scenario. I won't be part of it.
I stumbled across this forum by following a daisy chain of links that started with something posted on the 'other' forum -
It was free to check out, so I became interested. The culture here is on the whole, more agreeable here and so I spend far more time here than the other place. Kudos to the mods for keeping it sane.
You're reading too much into it. Look at the other site. Like it or not, even they do it. Many forums (for all subject matters) do it.
I've said enough.
I've said enough.
harbl_the_cat
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The reason there's so many guests is because some forums are indexed by Google and people doing a google search often find threads here.
I've actually been creating some threads specifically to test how Google crawls this site and indexes it's content.
Search traffic is essential for the growth of an online community like this - because otherwise the only way to grow is direct share / word of mouth traffic.
One of the reasons I dog on you so much Awndray is because I KNOW a lot of people see your posts based off their search traffic - and a lot of that traffic is from other gun owners doing research.
It doesn't help them when they see a repeated theme of: "Everything is hopeless, we should all just give up" but a lot of your posts come up with common Google searches.
The Google algorithm has text parsing and machine learning algorithms that can specifically target language that convey certain emotions - in your case fear, uncertainty and doubt (the algorithm LOVES that kind of content, because it's easiest to go viral)
Given that we know Google developers are primarily anti-gun - giving them the power of your emotional metadata gives them tremendous power to distribute your posts out of context to an audience that can use your words against you.
Moreover, in the Web 3.0 ecosystem the greatest threat malicious actors have isn't their ability to doxx you or access your private information.
It's to cancel you completely and make it so no one can find you.
Locking down the forum so no body can find it actually serves the anti-gun agenda, not ours.
Given the influx of "guests" we've seen in recent days, I'm confident in saying a lot of those "guests" are gun owners who previously were complacent or ignorant to the goings on of the Liberal government and were taken by surprised by the new laws.
Seeing them gravitate towards this site is a good thing - because it means we can attract more gun owners who potentially can help the cause.
Think about Operation Turf Mark Holland that CGN ran, I think in 2009.
It was because CGN had such a large active user base they were able to fund raise and get on the ground volunteers (grass roots organizing) to get Mark Holland turfed in that election.
Growing GOC would enable us to do something of that nature again.
The problem now is that Trudeau's enablers, handlers, and core support are basically bought for and paid by the Trudeau liberals (and the Federal government).
To counter that, we need more grassroots communities, like GOC, to keep growing and better assert our influence.
I've actually been creating some threads specifically to test how Google crawls this site and indexes it's content.
Search traffic is essential for the growth of an online community like this - because otherwise the only way to grow is direct share / word of mouth traffic.
One of the reasons I dog on you so much Awndray is because I KNOW a lot of people see your posts based off their search traffic - and a lot of that traffic is from other gun owners doing research.
It doesn't help them when they see a repeated theme of: "Everything is hopeless, we should all just give up" but a lot of your posts come up with common Google searches.
The Google algorithm has text parsing and machine learning algorithms that can specifically target language that convey certain emotions - in your case fear, uncertainty and doubt (the algorithm LOVES that kind of content, because it's easiest to go viral)
Given that we know Google developers are primarily anti-gun - giving them the power of your emotional metadata gives them tremendous power to distribute your posts out of context to an audience that can use your words against you.
Moreover, in the Web 3.0 ecosystem the greatest threat malicious actors have isn't their ability to doxx you or access your private information.
It's to cancel you completely and make it so no one can find you.
Locking down the forum so no body can find it actually serves the anti-gun agenda, not ours.
Given the influx of "guests" we've seen in recent days, I'm confident in saying a lot of those "guests" are gun owners who previously were complacent or ignorant to the goings on of the Liberal government and were taken by surprised by the new laws.
Seeing them gravitate towards this site is a good thing - because it means we can attract more gun owners who potentially can help the cause.
Think about Operation Turf Mark Holland that CGN ran, I think in 2009.
It was because CGN had such a large active user base they were able to fund raise and get on the ground volunteers (grass roots organizing) to get Mark Holland turfed in that election.
Growing GOC would enable us to do something of that nature again.
The problem now is that Trudeau's enablers, handlers, and core support are basically bought for and paid by the Trudeau liberals (and the Federal government).
To counter that, we need more grassroots communities, like GOC, to keep growing and better assert our influence.
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I don’t have much to add to this conversation other than my personal experiences, I frequently roam around on other reloading forums if I’m looking for some kind of information about different things. I do so as a guest and if I’m unable to enter a forum without creating an account, I just move on.
That’s how I found this one, I lurked around for quite a while before deciding to join because I enjoyed this site over cgn. I don’t know anything about bots or cyber security I just think we would have fewer members and fewer future members if the front door was locked.
That’s how I found this one, I lurked around for quite a while before deciding to join because I enjoyed this site over cgn. I don’t know anything about bots or cyber security I just think we would have fewer members and fewer future members if the front door was locked.