Tired of Spam Submissions

I don't get why people waste their time entering spam into submission forms or wasting time completing submissions to a paid directory and then not bothering to pay!!!

Anybody know of a good phpLD mod to prevent spam submissions and people looking for free reviews in paid dirs?

I'm thinking of a mod that requires email confirmation before a submission can be made or else maybe requires PayPal payment before submission?

Anybody have ideas? Thanks.

 

Contact Anthony and have his deep link mod installed in your directory,you won't see the unpaid submissions!

 

I have the mod by Anthony on ZetaLinks and I also think that Anon has a similar mod that takes care of the spam submissions.

 

Working on this as we speak, have set up Captcha and then linked that to email confirmation to complete the registration.

seems complicated but should work smooth when i have it sorted.

 

Spammers are lam0rs. Get 3 to 5 unpaid or spam submissions a day in my paid dir. Always same people trying their luck.

 

Upgrade to the newest version phpld and they wont bother anymore.
You can ban IPs, domains or what have not...

An0n makes a good mod for older versions of phpld...

thx
malcolm

 

I get a bunch as well. Most seem to come from .ro (no offense to our Romanian friends) sites and they always submit to the paintball category. I ban both domain and ip but still get many from different sites

 

Lately I have been getting about 30+ spam submissions per day. Most commonly "thank you", "great site", "hello", etc. This is really frustrating.

 

NO he is the "main spammer"....

thats why im thinking off cutting out the entire country
just to get rid off him and also most off my submissions are
from UK and USA so i see no reason why not too.

thx
malcolm

 

Anyone uses a system like mine, it's not really mine but it's a basic feature on the IndexU script. If a user does not pay the payment they all end up as suspended listings, they do not even end up on the approval list, they end up on the suspended page on my adminCP and from there you're able to delete them if you wish, but I believe it's a good system.

- Meti

 

My suggest category gets spammed daily. Does any have a fix for this without turning on image verification?

Thanks

 

Make a custom CAPTCHA system, make a question & answer field, like type in "CAR" case sensitive or something, should do the trick.

- Meti

 

well i guess that is a part of the job isn't it. If a car salesman stop telling the people and convincing he will not sell a single car. He gets average of 5 customer whom he talks to for 30 - 40 mins ... and than maybe 1 who buys a car ... He does it because it is a part of his job.

Just like deleting spam submission is a part of your job.


Captcha while saves you sometime, but often turns down alot of potential clients who don't want to waste their time with captcha. Anthony's system is a good system on outside. First disadvantage is you need to do things with 2 different admin panels... One phpLD Default admin panel than one with his system. Second the system is not xhtml valid, well if you want your site to have that ... it is not something that u wud want to put.

I dont know how rob's system works... never worked with it.

good luck

 

Thanks Fellas for all the great input. (greens given all around)

I guess I actually introduced 2 separate issues here:

1. SPAM submissions. Annoying as heck, but banning domain and IP does help.
2. Unpaid submissions. Just want to be sure I'm not missing any potential sales but also thinking about adding a BOLD message on submit.php warning them not to waste time submitting links for review unless they intend to pay.

Let me know when you're mod is ready DownUnder; I will gladly be a beta tester for you!

 

Downunder's system is for a bespoke , non phpld directory, not so ?


How is it coming along downunder ?

 

It is nice to know that I am not the only one getting a couple of these per day. They have slowed down since I started banning them though.

 

Sometimes it helps:

Make one more field anywhere between <form> and </form> on submit.tpl template.
eg.

<input type="text" name="SURNAME" value="" style="display:none;" />

Code (markup):

Better is to add style for display into your css and then add class to input field instead of 'style=...'

Then in submit.php validate if it's empty.
Above line starting from:

if (SmartyValidate :: is_valid($data, 'submit_link')....

Code (markup):

put this:

if(strlen($_POST['SURNAME']) > 0) {
  $SecondValidation = 0; }

Code (markup):

Think you understand the trick.
It's rather against autosubmitters.
You can use other than 'SURNAME' name.

You can add more and more simple tricks
The more - more secure you are.

- D.

 

Yes it is non php any extension, its coming together slowly , currently i am building in the back end sorting the registration and also installing and sorting another mod.

frustrating when all i want to do is load listings, but with this all being hand built and not of the shelf with a few plug ins, i expected it to take a while. i do hope to roll with some test listings in a few weeks.

If i can be ready to roll full speed come January 1, i will be very happy.

I can say to anyone that just looks at any of the better directories, that the work that ges into them behind the scenes must be massive.