"View new posts" and Dcemu newsposters

[arcadekidflo]

I have a suggestion . I noticed there are a lot of newsposters here , adding news from external sites

• Engandget
• Kotaku
• Slashdot/Slashdot11
• Ps3fanboy / 360fanboy / Wiifanboy/ Dsfanboy

Most users read forums using "view new posts " . But , these newsposters take up 80 % of all results , and sometimes there's 20 pages of them. That slows down the reading for users who are interested in reading just topics about their favourite console(s) or emulator(s). I had the impression this is a good homebrew discussion forum not a babelfish of news...
Can we have an option in the control panel to block some areas or users to show up when doing " view new posts " ?

[bah]

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=92460

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=105819

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...post2148017616

Members (those that haven't been driven away by the mass spamming) hate them, all the mods I've heard from hate them, this has been made clear to wraggster. But there they are, spamming away...

It has been pointed out many times that they do nothing good for the site while doing it a great disservice in terms of current members going elsewhere and the bad image it gives to newcomers.

There's obviously something about them that wraggster likes, it's clearly not related to people liking the site and enjoying the content enough to keep coming back however.

Let me know if you can think of anything other than they somehow increase advertising revenue or page ranking because computer algorithms somewhere are still stupid enough to actually think the spam bots post some kind of meaningful content.

[quzar]

Two words: Google rank.

[bah]

A higher page rank obtained by mass spamming might lead more people to the site, but less will come back regularly.

[PSPdemon]

Two words: Google rank.

i have 4:

RSS BOTS MUST DIE!

[ExcruciationX]

This has been brought up a lot, and honestly, is probably killing the site.

[dejkirkby]

Surely Google Rank is not worth alienating the members that frequent here.

[JKKDARK]

and less people are posting on the forum since the bots are here

[Sonicboy 101]

This has been brought up a lot, and honestly, is probably killing the site.

Yeah. But it hasn't been dealt with since it was first said, so I wouldn't be surprised if it stays this way.

[beetroot bertie]

I can't be bothered checking out the "Xbox, Xbox360 & Zune Gaming & Hardware Forum" forum any more because of this. It just fills up with too much RSS stuff from 360fanboy. Whilst I appreciate there is something of interest in amongst it, I just feel overwealmed by it all and switch off. In addition, I don't feel like responding to something that's not from a member of the site as such. It just seems so hollow