Search Engines posting to vshare!

I've been getting a bunch of "inappropriate requests" on all the videos on my site lately that I *know* are ok, so I thought some joker was just messing with this...

...until today when I was looking at my "recent visitors" in my host cPanel and noticed someone was posting "inappropriate request"s....turns out this is a GOOGLE and YAHOO crawlers doing it! They're also posting "feature this" requests!

They also try to "comment" on videos (which it wouldn't let them do cos you have to be a member to comment).

I'll be writing to them to see how to make it so that it doesn't do this. I know about robots.txt, but I want them to visit the pages that videos are on, I just don't want them to post requests and try to comment...

... HOW they're doing that, I don't know, but if someone already knows, and has a way of getting around this, please share! :)

Unless there's a way of setting it so that only members can rate & flag videos in the same way one must be a member inorder to comment?

There ya go.. It should be that only members can do flag or feature requests.. I would back that change.


I love that google indexes my site.. and ALOT but I hate the requests.

See the Feature Request section of the forum and all your wishes will come true.

Regards,
Mat.

Yeah, noticed the "Feature Requests" after my initial post (I had *just* discovered it). I thought maybe there was a way to set it for members only but missed it in the admin panel somewhere, but it turns out there isn't any.

I posted in the Feature Requests too just in case. So, for now, I set robots.txt to not go to the view directory and I have not had one single "inappropriate" request since.

http://forums.buyscripts.in/viewtopic.p ... highlight=

That will fix it for you ;). Not a good idea to restrict the search engine in my opinion as it is cutting out a useful source of visitors.

yup I know... :/ I didn't want to use the robots.txt

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I know about robots.txt, but I want them to visit the pages that videos are on

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but the requests were driving me insane.

It was the best thing I could think of at the time. I know zero about php. Once I put up robots.txt and restricted the /view/ directory, I did not have one single "feature/inappropriate" request.

However, thanks to URVids who posted the "fix", I'll be able to take off the "robobts.txt". YAY.....THANKS URVIDS!!!!