Maybe of interest to TopSite owners

Thought I would share my findings with my fellow DP's:

I found some users hammering the hell out of my "topsite" and after much searching found a piece of code that may help put a stop to this. The problem was certain users were registering 6,000-8,000 hits daily... but the sites they linked to did not show my site's reciprocal banner.

Here's one of their pages they used that loaded my banner like 200,000 times this month only:
www. cetsohbet. com/prler/

It seems these "Turkish Sohbet Spammers" are using techniques to inflate their numbers and rankings which misuse our server resources. Deleting or disabling their account is not enough to stop these huge numbers of DB queries on our servers.

If you are running Aardvark Topsites PHP... Here is the code you will want to add to "button.php" above the line that says // Settings

// Ban those Turkish Sohbet Spammers
$bastard = array("sohbet", "jancat", "siberask", "strat", "deli", "ekselans", "kanoha_village", "muhabbetr", "sohpetg", "sohpetgen", "peter7", "syah_avx04", "iddaa", "cturk", "sturk");

if (in_array($_GET['u'], $bastard)) {
exit;
}

PHP:

Then add the usernames they sign up with to this array (IE: "sohbet",) to stop them from accessing your topsite.

 

Unfortunately 10 lines of perl can defeat the referrer checks of most topsites =/

 

Well... so far... it seems to be working. BUT I am sure it will be a continuing battle. These spammers are really becoming a pain in the ass.

/*me wonders now how I could add a function to display another "button" for these users only */

 

has anyone noticed that whatever problem we come across, wheather it is a hacked site, over use, or exploting sites, the turks are the ones to blame?

 

I hope its just a phase they are going through. I believe we experienced the same from the "l44t h4ck0rz" in the United States during the late 90's lol

 

If the majority of your troubles are coming from a particular country, why not look at blocking the country all toegether. I about to block Iran on one of my proxies for a similar reason

 

I am running a very big top site and I too had large problems with this. This was until I blocked them all in the .htaccess. I regularly update the list to block on my blog, see the article here:
http://www.jimwestergren.com/stop-the-topsites-spam/