Question about spam

Discussion in 'Directories' started by Littile John, Aug 13, 2008.

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  1. #1
    hi everyone
    Are you getting loads of spam Bots, is their any ways to stop the spam? Out of 300 submissions l get l remove about 200 because they look spammy,
    if the PR is N/A and Not 0 l remove also
    any suggestions please :)
     
    Littile John, Aug 13, 2008 IP
  2. Nycteria

    Nycteria Active Member

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  3. swedal

    swedal Notable Member

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    You can eliminate a lot of it by using the ban ip, domain and certain word features which are built into some scripts. If that is not working contact the scripts support area or an0n here on dp.
     
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  4. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    No need to delete the PR n/a sites.

    Editing your directory based on the PR of a site is a very poor decision.
     
    mikey1090, Aug 13, 2008 IP
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    dpsubi1 Notable Member

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    use banned word mod and you can ban the words used by spammers which will reduce spam submissions.
     
    dpsubi1, Aug 13, 2008 IP
  6. C.Whyte

    C.Whyte Peon

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    Couldn't agree more. Those sites you are deleting (not the spam ones, but the others) might make it big next update and you would be missing out.


    Is your directory a free submit? I charge $1 for mine and that keeps 100% of the spam out :)
     
    C.Whyte, Aug 13, 2008 IP
  7. Littile John

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    ref above l see you charge $1 so that should work to stop spammers great:)
     
    Littile John, Aug 13, 2008 IP
  8. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    A paid directory will still get spam. Do you think robots care if they were supposed to visit paypal after submitting? ;)
     
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    jitendraag Notable Member

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    My 2 cents:

    1. Use captcha in your submit form. You can try recaptcha because other form of captchas are broken by many bots.
    2. Use some sort of session based authentication so that kids can't write scripts to spam your directory. They have to first visit a page, get the session cookies and have to send them while making the submissions.
    3. Making your directory paid doesn't help. Just search for directory spam on this forum and you will find a lot of bidding directory owners crying over spam submissions.
    4. Don't delete sites based on PR N/A that's plain and simple wrong.
     
    jitendraag, Aug 13, 2008 IP