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Old Jan 20, 2012 | 8:48 pm
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tom911
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Originally Posted by Cholula
But how do you identify them and single them out from the overwhelming, 24/7/365 onslaught that we get hit from by Spammers, Trolls and Search Engine Bots?
The same way the moderators in the airline and hotel forums do? Are any of these unique to OMNI? We get all of those in the airline and travel forums, too. I regularly report them to the moderators when I see them before they do. If the forum needs additional moderators more could be appointed. OMNI has less moderators that either of the airline forums I post on.

Personally, I don't have a problem with search engines indexing anything I post publicly. I don't think OMNI should be a secret forum. With thousands of FTers already having access (is there a hard number?), I just can't imagine that anyone thinks what they post there is secret in any way and that a search engine should handle OMNI posts any differently than what I post on an airline forum. I have used non-FT search engines before to locate material on FT and it would just open up another forum that I could search in that manner, say for a consumer issue that might have been discussed before.
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