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Only registered or logged in people can view links now.
« on: October 29, 2009, 12:39:04 PM »
In an effort to get more people registered and posting, i modded the forum so that unregistered people, or people who are registered but not logged in can't view links.

There are a couple of reasons for doing this. First, it seems like a lot of people stop by just to look at the jobs, which is good, but it would be nice if they'd register and post some too.  It's not my goal to piss anyone off, but really, registration is free and only takes a minute. 

The second and most important reason is to try an appease the google overlords.   With this mod, their bots wont see the outbound links, and hopefully this will help alleviate some of the penalties they impose for excessive outbound links.  The end goal being to rank better via google, and in turn get more members.

So if anyone has anyone notices any problems, please let me know so i can try to fix it.  If we ever achieve a critical mass of posters then i'll probably remove this mod.

Any questions or comments, feel free to vent!

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Only registered or logged in people can view links now.
« on: October 29, 2009, 12:39:04 PM »

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Re: Only registered or logged in people can view links now.
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2009, 04:16:23 PM »
Also, for some reason when you register, sometimes it doesn't immediately activate.  It's supposed to be completely automatic, but often times i'll check and find a few registrations waiting to be approved. 

I'm not sure why this does this, so please be patient and check back later to see if it's gone through. 

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Re: Only registered or logged in people can view links now.
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2009, 11:50:59 PM »
Hey man no complaints here from the sites No. 1 fan. 

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Re: Only registered or logged in people can view links now.
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2009, 07:40:35 AM »
Damn, if i actually made any money i'd put you on the payroll

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