Quote from: logfiles on October 01, 2020, 07:19:32 PM

Quote from: examplens on September 29, 2020, 03:33:32 PM

Both of you, do not post direct links to these scammers. Remove https: and www in front of the domain. That way we will all understand the message and your good intentions will not be able to have a negative effect. this is how it looks like a promotion of these websites, linking to the site such as Bitcointalk can positively affect the future authority of websites.
I guess we will not help them in their work.

Can you please elaborate on how sharing links of scam websites can have a negative effect or is some sort of promotion? Maybe I am missing something.
I shared the links to make members aware of all the similar scam exchanges. Anyone who googles about any of those links will end up seeing this thread in the search results and will be able to read the warnings in the thread which I think is something good and not negative as you stated.

"Backlinks" is still one of the strongest factors for website positioning. When someone posts a clickable link on the website with high domain authority, it positively affects his ranking in search engine.
For example, search engines bots and crawlers will connect subject "Someone heard or know about this bitcoin website" and links in the topic, but there is no possibility to review the complete discussion and decide whether it is a scam. the result is all of the linked websites in this topic can be related to "bitcoin website" in a future search.
this can help in finding such sites when someone searches using the phrase "bitcoin website investment". The first result will not lead to this topic, then very possibly to some of the fraudulent sites. I guess everyone knows that most clicks go to the first few results.
one link doesn't mean much, but it is still a help. as far as I have noticed, all fraudsters of this kind do not pay much attention to SEO, it all comes down to sharing across social networks and various community groups.

Also, I guess you know that very few users here read the complete conversation on the forum, sometimes not even the previous post. Much more likely that someone will click that link, and how they have a very solid design, there is a big possibility that they will still believe them, rather than you who wanted to warn them. Even if they need to do more action (copy/paste link), it affects the slowdown all action or giving up for laziness, which in turn affects a smaller number of potential victims. this is more based on human psychology.

in both cases, we are talking about users who are at the beginner level or a little more. Regarding, the average user who does not use advanced searches. in my estimation, there are at least 80% of all internet users.

In the end, negative advertising is advertising after all.
I am just saying, adding scammers websites links in code tag is enough.