First: Ban. Second: Name. Third: Shame.

Hey guys.

In my time here I've noticed alot of people trying to mess up other people's websites, including affiliate systems, adsense, YPN, etc. I think what is really called for is somewhere to report members who do this. Last night, 'Hybrid7' created a thread about raising your Adsense CTR. After requesting which sites I have Adsense on - I gave 2 sites I serve ads on but don't really care about too much - I got 102 impressions, 30 clicks. Funnily enough using Google's ad tracker/analytics and my server logs, I've found the culprit (well, not really found, just provided proof) and banned their IP through my cpanel, as well as reported them to Adsense.

So, what am I complaining about? The fact there isn't any place on DP to explicitly complain and moan about other DP members. Ok, so I understand such a thread would largely become a constant bitching contest, and would be flooded with 'He said he would buy my site for $6 but didn't send me payment" type posts. But surely where someone has hard evidence of someone click bombing, whom they were originally in contact through DP, DP mods should do something to restrict such members' account.

Well, I expect this thread to fall on deaf ears as even I myself believe such a thread would be pointless. But, it does throw into the ring - what can we do to cut it out?

 

It's been said a million times, you really can't prove anything. What are you going to send...some screen shots? Some log files/referrer data? All can be faked and the mods can't possibly be expected to sort out issues like this that are between members. If we set that precedent the next thing that would happen is those folks who click bomb your site (or whatever other problems they are causing) would start providing fake reports to DP of you causing problems for them so we would restrict your account.