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Discussion in 'Podiatry Arena Technical Support' started by admin, Nov 30, 2007.

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  1. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member


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    Last edited: Jan 7, 2008
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  2. drsarbes

    drsarbes Well-Known Member

    adm:
    Can you tell me the difference between the posts here at the arena by members and those by the rssfeedbot.
    Specifically, if one responds to a post by an arena member vs one on the rssfeedbot, does the rss reply come up with a google search and can anyone access it?
    I assume that to view a response given to an arena post one would need an ID and password (i.e., be a member).

    Clarification on how these two are handled by the internet, privacy, google searches, etc...is appreciated.

    Steve
     
    drsarbes, Dec 27, 2009
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  3. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

    Posts by RSSFeedBot are automated posts taken from other places - they are provided by other sites for this purpose. RSSFeedBot is a registered user that we created for the purpose of inserting the RSS feeds.

    We take feeds from other forums (Student Doctor Network, Foot Health Forum etc) and from a number of news site, especially Medical News Today. Here is there list of feeds that they make available:
    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?page=newsfeed
    We take the Diabetes, Sports Medicine, Rheumatology and Dermatology feeds and insert them as posts. We take the health care news headlines from CNN health news; and the UK health news from the BBC; etc

    In a similar way, we make our RSS feed for other to take if they want it:
    http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/external.php (the last time I checked, there were 19 subscribers to our feed)

    RSS feeds can be inserted into forums (like we do); used as blog posts; or subscribed to privatly via something like Google Reader (I have over 200 RSS feeds going to my Google reader).

    We do this mainly for information purposes for Podiatry Arena visitors. The RSS feed is only a snippet of the story and there is a link back to the source.

    Members here can reply and discuss any of the posts made this way. The posts made by RSSFeedBot do turn up on the new posts page, but not on the home page new posts or in the weekly newsletter (it would get too cluttered with the RSS posts).

    Does this answer the question?
     
    admin, Dec 27, 2009
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  4. drsarbes

    drsarbes Well-Known Member

    "Does this answer the question?"
    Almost - thank you.

    The part that was not answered is this:
    If someone were to GOOGLE, say, the name of a thread started here by an arena member - would this come up on the search and if so, could a non member read it without joining the Arena?

    Thank you

    Steve
     
    drsarbes, Dec 28, 2009
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  5. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

    Yes. Non-members can read everything on Podiatry Arena. We work hard on Google rankings and our discussions on a lot of topics come up well.
    Non-members can not access attachments in threads (ie pictures and pdf file) and they get served extra advertisements that can be annoying.
     
    admin, Dec 28, 2009
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