This person has been submitting the same website to my directory 15 times perday, everytime i delate it, he submits more. He has been doing this the last 2 weeks. Why would he even do this? Why Waste his time, he has probably submitted over 100 time. I have emailed him, telling him to stop, but he still submits.
I first I did, but then he started submiting 4-5 times, now its 15 times per-day. I mean I don't understand, there are so many directories out there to submite, why spend your time on just one.
If your directory is coded in php open your submission script (submit.php) and add these to the top just after any includes. if (strpos($_REQUEST['URL'], 'qwerty.com')) {exit;} $ip_address = GetEnv('REMOTE_ADDR'); if (strpos($ip_address, '125.23.60.') === true) {exit;} Code (markup): Now copy the first line and change the _REQUEST['URL'] to what your script calls the URL entry field on the submission page. Now that exits the script whenever some one tries to submit that site, it wont get submitted and just show a blank screen. Now just change the ip address to match the spammers subnet (IE leave off the last three) and I do belive you covered your self pretty well. Credit goes to GTech for this little bit of code I just twisted it to fit the application.
Just ban their submitted website domain and forget it. This is a feature I really like about eSyndiCat.
Here is his name : Kate Edwards Here are some, as the are so many of them to post (maybe 60 different). And he would submit the same domains 4-5 times. All the domains are the same content, 1graduateschools.com 1glassetching.com 1golftournaments.com 1grating.com 1golf-clubs.com 1aircraft-interior.com 1hydroponicsystem.com 1allergy-filters.com 1airbrush.com 1-alzheimers.com
I don't think you should be worrying about why someone is doing this. Its most probably a bot / automated system. Just block the IP, and you might wanna implement a proper URL banning system for future 'attacks'.
Good thing I caught this while I was doing my updates. more information here Ip range to deny is 216.139.229.*
Hey I find myself telling this to many people. But why dont you add visual confirmation (CAPTCHA)? This should prevent automated submissions. I see you haven't enabled it at your GoGetTraffic directory. I also had this problem in my directory. It stopped after I added visual confirmation. Thomas
I ban IPs from submitting stuff to my site in my htaccess file. I don't ban them from viewing the site, only from submitting to the site. Here is a sample of code you can use to do the same (the red text items are comments). Obviously copying and pasting this code will not work. <Limit POST> [COLOR="Red"]This limits it to just POSTs, meaning he can still read the directory but not make POST requests[/COLOR] <Limit GET POST PUT> [COLOR="Red"]This limits it to GETs, POSTs, and PUTs, meaning he can still read the directory but not submit anything[/COLOR] order deny,allow [COLOR="red"]This tells your server to see if they're banned first[/COLOR] deny from 83.9.13.156 [COLOR="red"]This bans that specific IP[/COLOR] deny from 83.9 [COLOR="red"]this will ban all 65536 IPs that start with 83.9[/COLOR] deny from aol.com [COLOR="red"]This bans all AOL users[/COLOR] allow from all [COLOR="red"]This says to let all unbanned traffic through[/COLOR] </Limit> [COLOR="red"]This ends the limiting portion[/COLOR] Code (markup): Here is an example of a working ip ban in your htaccess file. This example blocks a wide range of IP addresses from submitting stuff to my site, but it does not block them from viewing the site. <Limit GET POST PUT> order deny,allow deny from 83.9 allow from all </Limit> Code (markup): Further, if you place this htaccess file in a sub directory, it will only affect that directory and all subdirectories. So, if you want to ban someone from submitting links to your directory at mysite.com/directory/ folder, but want to allow them to post comments to your blog at mysite.com/blog/, you can place the htaccess file in your directory subfolder and they will be limited from submitting info to your directory.