The archives/hardcore sections should not be open to all!
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:16 am
Please!
The following is copied from "The other site's BB"...I thought it might be of interest to many here...
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As of right now, none of the new VW or RC pages are showing as indexed on Google or Bing. I am not at all sure (OK, I am really just guessing), but I think I recall reading once that in Google a page does not go into the index until it is spidered twice, so there may be a window during which if RC is closed, the pages will not go into the index.
Since people are arguing about just how much of a barrier membership is to spreading pictures over the web, I did a quick check of some private show monthly winners vs redclouds regular monthly winners from about a year ago, using a random picture from the contri (using the monthly winners pages, now uncensored at VW).
The sample size is definitely not big enough to be certain, but Google images was only about 3/4 as likely to find the RC picture elsewhere on the web vs the VW picture. Whereas the PS were almost always scraped from the page (probably by a bot as there were many repeat offenses by the same site) at least half of the copied RC pictures were clearly posted by the model or I strongly suspect actually were published on the web first.
So I I would guess that the membership roughly triples your chance (or better) of your contribution not ending up roaming free. I suspect a closer look would increase that ratio even further.