Well, this just beats all. I have a niche arts directory (music, art & literature). I do allow submissions to more than one category, because sometimes a site fits well into 2 categories. Some jerk submitted his "construction lawyers" site to 102 of the 127 categories in my directory. I immediately deleted them all of course. Now, sometimes folks submit to 2 categories. That's OK, if they're relevant to both. And, we do get a lot of submissions that don't relate to our niche; I hate that but I'm used to it. But this is different; it is so extreme. I've never seen anything like it before. Have any of you had the same experience? cheers ~ Denise p.s. It is nice to think that he's going to get 102 rejection notices in his mailbox!
ROFL. Looks like he fell in love with your directory. If you have given him some time, he might have submitted to remaining 25 categories as well lol .... That does sound nice
I expect it was automated spam. if using phpLD enquire about using the spam guard mod. It works wonders
Thanks for the suggestion; I hadn't heard about that mod. I'll definitely check into it. cheers ~ Denise
If the submissions are relevant I would let them into more then one category. On a different note - That guy sounds like a dush!
spammers will try ANYTHING to get a free link. Makes me seriously doubt the legitimacy of his site if someone tries that....
Hello... LOL ... Im about to remove the country of romania as the spam ive been getting from them makes your adventure look like childs play.. thx malcolm
LOL, am spammed only on the health category! I get a lot of spam, but rarely it is posted in the wrong category
Just in case you didn't know the second most spoken language at Microsoft is...romanian! Oh god...these guys learn programming by the age of five Have a look at this video and you should be proud to be spammed by romanians... LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSoruzRkj7g
You are absolutely right. The website in question is indeed very spammy...and the fact that it's a lawyer's website makes it even worse. Who would want to hire a lawyer like that? cheers ~ Denise
If we could only get our spammer to do something worthwhile and productive then i would think differently of him/her Once biz-giant is up he will be terminated and may not have too go to the extreme of banning an entire country for 1 fool. thx malcolm
I imagine it took you maybe a couple of clicks to delete it all, Denise? Whilst the guy who did it probably took a while to fill in all of those fields, even with something like Roboform. If only you could harness that stupidity and use it to power a small town.
No he is injecting them ...takes 2 seconds to submit to however many directories he has on the list... He cant do it to phpld 3.2 and is forced to do it by hand. thx malcolm
I'm assuming it is 3.2? But I have come across multiple submits like this that have obviously been done by hand, once in a while.
Yes, it's PHPLD 3.2. So, it was quick for me to delete them. But it's the audacity of it that blew me away! best, Denise
LOL. Some people really have time for this. On one of my sites I have had people submit same ad 50 times a day on different cities, countries etc. Eventually made me change the system to handle this. You may think about checking the url if it already exists in the system.