What forums are publicly searchable?

[southpawboston]

i was just wondering, are all the forums within car-seat.org publicly google searchable, or only some of them? i know that if i google certain terms, i come up with forum topics here. but what about coffee break and the subforum, senior community private chat? are those google searchable? i want to post some pics but do NOT want them to be google cached.

TIA!

[Jewels]

the subforum, senior community private chat? are those google searchable?
TIA!
I don't think you can google into these. Also if you want to post picks you can always have a moderator remove them later on :whistle:

[TxMomma]

I don't think you can google into these. Also if you want to post picks you can always have a moderator remove them later on :whistle:

I've seen posts from here several times when I've googled something car seat related.

[Jewels]

I've seen posts from here several times when I've googled something car seat related.

From the carseat forums yes, but I don't think you can google and get into the senior member forum.

[TxMomma]

From the carseat forums yes, but I don't think you can google and get into the senior member forum.

Oh ok, well I admit I don't know everything. I just like to think I do :p

[southpawboston]

I don't think you can google into these. Also if you want to post picks you can always have a moderator remove them later on :whistle:

right, i can also host them on my own server (like i do most of my pics), linking to them in my posts, and then remove them myself later, but once the google search bots crawl through the forum and copy pics/text into google's cache, that's it... they can be there forever. :( that's why i want to know if the google bots are allowed access to the senior community chat forum.

[Jewels]

that's why i want to know if the google bots are allowed access to the senior community chat forum.
I see what you mean :( This post (http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?p=65839#post65839) might help answer your question, not positive but it might :D

I also PM'd you about this!

[CPSDarren]

Theoretically, the Senior Community Member forum and Carseat Swap forum are not even visible to Google or anyone not registered so they should not be archived. I've never actually checked though and those Google people are pretty clever...

[CPSDarren]

You can delete your own posts in the SCM and Swap forums also.

[LuvBug03]

You can delete your own posts in the SCM and Swap forums also.

I cant :( Ive never been able to figure out how because the edit disappears in them just like in the others.

[UlrikeDG]

I tried it just now and I could not find posts in the restricted forums using Google.

[southpawboston]

okay, thanks all...

i want to post some family pics in there but i am fiercely anti-search bot! ;) i will probably go ahead and just have them there for a few days...

[CPSDarren]

The edit feature will disappear in the same time, but there should be a delete option somewhere as it is enabled in those two forums.

I know people have deleted their own messages, perhaps someone can say where to find the option. My interface is probably different so I don't know for sure.

[LuvBug03]

sigh I still cant find it. This came up in chat one night and I couldnt find it then either.
I dont have anything to be deleted, yet...

[UlrikeDG]

AFAIK, the delete option is only found under the "edit" button. If the edit button disappears, I don't know how you would delete that post. However, you could PM a mod, and they can do it for you.

[LuvBug03]

ok I found the delete function, but I think it dissapears once the edit button does... so youd have to be quick to delete it once youve posted it...

[CPSDarren]

It shouldn't do that- I'll look into it.

[LuvBug03]

Ive got a test thread going to see when it dissapears on me. It hasnt disappeared after a reply was made, so will see if it disappears when the edit does and report back.
Can you change the length of edit in a specific forum as opposed to the whole site? if you can then lengthening the length of the edit in just those 2 forums would benefit users. In the swap it would allow them to edit out/in new info or that the item is now sold.

[jef]

right, i can also host them on my own server (like i do most of my pics), linking to them in my posts, and then remove them myself later, but once the google search bots crawl through the forum and copy pics/text into google's cache, that's it... they can be there forever. :(

If you have full control over your server you can place a robots.txt in the root directory. That's a plain text file in which you can tell the google spider and other robots what to index and what not to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_Exclusion_Standard

[Admin]

There does not appear to be a standard option to allow users to delete posts after the "edit" time limit is expired. I didn't realize one was dependent on the other. So for now, I have removed the limit for editing posts, though the "edited by" tagline will remain if you edit after 15 minutes of the original posting.

[LuvBug03]

cool! thanks! I was wondering why it was still sticking around ;)

ok so if you want to delete your post look at the top right corner of your thread and see the "thread tools" click the arrow and at the bottom will be the "delete post" option.

Thanks again!

[Simplysomething]

A for what it's worth...
when things are edited out of the regular forums (posts that I asked to be edited)...the unedited versions show up in google cache...

(not the private forum)

[CPSDarren]

A for what it's worth...
when things are edited out of the regular forums (posts that I asked to be edited)...the unedited versions show up in google cache...

(not the private forum)


Yeah that was one of the reasons for the senior community member forum- having a place not searchable or archived. I assume that anything I put in a public internet forum will be searchable and archived forever. There are also websites like www.archive.org that take snapshots of websites periodically. Plus, even in a private forum, any one member with access can copy your posts or photos so nothing is ever really safe.