Please restrict Googlebot access

Hello

Will it be possible that some editor take contact with the webmaster or the forum admin for request him that, through the file robots.txt, restrict Googlebot's access to this forum?

When I look for my websites or other similar ones in Google, it appears next to the results this forum and my fits of anger

I hope they take this in consideration as long as these discussions are more private.

Obviously we prefer if people find this forum, so banning googlebot does not fit our ideas very well. There is an internal discussion on removing external links for unregistered users though, but it may take some time until a consensus is reached.

I hope they take this in consideration as long as these discussions are more private.

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Who said a discussion in our public forum was private? We surely didn't.

It's life in the internet. Never post what you don't want the world to see. I posted once in an SEO forum about a competitor using a sneaky technique to rank higher for a keyword than my site. Now I'm stuck forever with the fact that my post in the SEO forum now ranks the highest for the keyword.

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I give them an example: I am a businessman, and I have a disloyal competition. You are the government's entity that takes charge of investigating and I make an accusation. The topic converses him among us, but to the competition it's happened to distort the accusation and shown it to the clients like an attack intent. What is happening here is something similar, and Google search engine, the same as ODP, is a tool to website client's disposition, while this forum is a tool for webmasters (according to what I read in almost all the posts)

You posted in a public forum, not a private forum. There is no expectation of privacy in a public forum and no expectation that others won't be able to find your public posts by searching in search engines.

This is also an UNOFFICIAL forum. You should learn a lesson from this - possibly modify the way you act on PUBLIC forums? That way you would not leave a trail of embarrassment for yourself and then have to ask parties uninterested in cleaning up your mess... to clean up your mess.

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IMO The fact that your posts can find there way into the public areana - in a PUBLIC forum shouldn't be a surprise. In fact it's a good thing if it encourages better manners and etiquette. Electronic communication has a reputation for being too informal and is used to say things we would be unwilling to say in most other forms of communication.

"If you post you pay" as someone once told me.

I speak as a sinner not a saint having said something about someone I shouldn't have said openly (not before I said it to their face). Whilst I didn't identify them, they knew who they were and every now and then Google & Co reminds us both.

Serves me right but doesn't serve the other party right.

So, dont post something you might latter regret. As I have learnt, with freedom of speech comes responsibility.

There - my daily wisdom quota used up