Shemp wrote: ↑April 11th, 2023, 3:14 am
PAG explained the real problem, which is that HA is banned from all search engines as a hate site. Trolling and shot-posting is no problem. Indeed, Twitter is basically non-stop trolling and shit-posting. But the things Cornfed says will generate an instaban from most mainstream companies, and even mild-mannered posters like you, Yohan and gsjackson says things that are unacceptable if you want a site to be properly listed in search engines. So that means HA is relegated to the scrap heap of so-called hate sites. Very limited intersection between people who visit so-called hate sites and people interested in leaving USA or Western Europe for better opportunities abroad. Most people open to happierabroad message are younger and don't want to hear so-called hate speech against trannies.
Being labelled as a hate site by Google is quite bad, but it doesn't imply that the site is unreachable, or it cannot be used, or it shouldn't be used for what it's meant for. If quality posters want to join in and contribute after simply learning about the forum URL, they will definitely be able to do so.
You might be familiar with the so-called "broken window theory".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
You are saying that, since HA has been placed in the gutter of the Internet catalogue, it will be automatically be worth less or no respect, which encourages rock-bottom people like PAG to come in and break more windows, to remain on metaphor.
If that's the case, the only way to fix HA is to
- freeze all posting for a few days
- get a backup of the site
- purge the site of all the useless, toxic, hateful contents, or at least most of it
- reinstall the forum system, maybe a better one than PhpBB, on the same domain or even a different domain
- reinstate the purged contents
- wait for Google to inspect and score it again.
The question is, then, if Winston can even be bothered to do it. If not even the owner is interested in fixing the broken window, then that's prime indication that the destiny of HA is, indeed, to be the forum equivalent of a shitter in the filthy toilet of abandoned horror movie-kind of warehouse.
If that's the case, it would bear more dignity to all parties concerned if HA were to just die off.