Security Board Rules

[paul]

If you edit it, I'd be interested in getting the code if you want someone to test it.

[Frodo]

Got this done easy enough in the end, just took a bit of thought as to the best way to do it.

So, I moved all the topics to a new sub forum, Security Updates, and the simply added this to the SQL that generates the latest posts. (64 being the id of the Security Updates sub forum)

WHERE .... AND `forumid` != 64;

As an additional step I restricted this sub forum to registered users, this has the effect of removing it from the RSS feed and prevents google from crawling it and seeing it as duplicate content.

Another benefit of this strategy over just stopping posts from the ArticleBot user appearing, as first mentioned, is that if any new security feeds are added to this sub forum they will also be treated like this too automatically.

[Forbairt]

nicely done ... leaves the main security forum nice and tidy as well


though the security feeds won't get indexed by search engines now either .. unless its possible for the "google bot" to see registered users forums ?

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by Forbairt

though the security feeds won't get indexed by search engines now either .. unless its possible for the "google bot" to see registered users forums ?

Originally Posted by Frodo

This ... prevents google from crawling it and seeing it as duplicate content.

I would have seen this as a feature rather than a bug, as this would all be dup content.

[blacknight]

Originally Posted by Forbairt

though the security feeds won't get indexed by search engines now either .. unless its possible for the "google bot" to see registered users forums ?

That's intentional.

The feeds are pulled from other sites, so they are NOT original content for the spiders

[Forbairt]

thought it might be something like that just thought I'd ask anyways

[paul]

i can still see them in my view ?

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I thought it would be better to just have them go to one thread.

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by paul

i can still see them in my view ?

What is that a view of? don't recognise it.

[paul]

When I look at new posts. They show up there.

The screenshot is small, after the board resized it. Sorry I didn't realise.

[blacknight]

Originally Posted by paul

When I look at new posts. They show up there.

Use the new posts at the bottom of the main page