Someone is claiming that 800 visitors a day is making their site the most visited informational website about Dumaguete and is sending out emails, possibly to forum members, stating so. If anyone has received those emails and has not signed up on their site (if you received the emails you know the site) or you have not given them your private email in any way please let me know. The only person that should have access to your emails on this site is me and one other admin (who I personally know and trust). I am not concerned with the email content itself, it appears as just a promotion of their website, I have no interest in stopping anyone from promoting their own website. I will not, however, allow anyone to steal emails or other personal information from this website. If their was a leak I need to know about it and I will actively pursue legal actions against anyone who takes such actions against this website. I am not convinced that this happened but I want to make sure the security on this site has not been compromised. There are no logs of any unauthorized access to the forum or the servers. I'd rather just be safe than sorry. and FYI: 800 visitors a day is not even half of what this website gets and visitors alone is not an accurate way to determine a websites popularity. Someone can click on your website and then immediately leave. If one visitor only sees 1 page and then leaves then you have a sh*t website. The website in question ranks well over 5 million in world website popularity and hasn't yet ranked in the Philippines, while DI ranks 600-700k worldwide and 10k in the Philippines. Just lettin' ya know.
Haven't received anything from another website. That reminds me that I heard one restaurant owner was posting bad crap about a competitor here on Trip Advisor and that a resort owner allegedly was asking all his customers to post excellent rankings of his resort on Trip Advisor and he moved up to number ranking here. More fun in the Philippines.
Glad to hear that. I really don't think emails have been stolen from this site. I am just leaning on the side of caution. As for the Trip Adviser thing, that's not limited to the Philippines. There have been plenty of businesses all around the world that have paid for ratings for their business (and the down rating of other businesses). There was a special on one of the news networks about it a couple months ago on some girl who made pretty good money just going around giving ratings. If there is a system to exploit, people will exploit it. Websites that have rating systems have advanced algorithms to try to prevent this, but all they can really do is react as people are quite creative.
