As part of our nonstop fight against spammers, we´ve had to limit what new users can do until we´ve had a chance to ensure that they´re really travellers and not viagra salesmen.

One thing we do is hide new user stuff from the homepage, rss, sitemap, etc. so that if any spam does make it onto the site, at least it stays off the homepage and away from anything that Google can see or index. Once I´ve marked you ´trusted´, your stuff will start showing up in those places.

I´ll go ahead and make sure you´re on the good list...

written by  Jason Kester on November 7, 2009