What is your final solution to the SPAMMER problem?

I would like to know what is your best solution to stop any spammer to your website.

I have used some solutions, but my problem still exists = No Final solution.

This is like a mouse and cat game - don't you think?

 

Pay first, then submit. No more SPAM.

 

All my directories are paid. Updating to phpld 3.1.0 has been the turning point. No spammy autosubmissions so far!

 

How difficult was the move from 3.06 to 3.1? Any hints to offer?

 

Has the 3.1.0 final been released?

 

Yep...its pretty solid build.

Very easy to update. submit.tpl and profile.tpl needs a few changes (see boby's thread at phpld forum)

 

ipban works kinda well

 

Mayby you should try censorship. It's available in OpenLD.

 

Oh this spam trouble is killing... I get "hotel sites" submitted to a "webmaster directory", all from same email id's...
Not too much spam, so I can still neglect it...
Bye

 

My solution was to remove the submit.php from the homepage

 

I m also in same problems in my directory i got finance and realstate sites nearly 99% submission got for these categories aslo from same Email ID.

 

Enable register system will help to stop many spams

 

For automatic software submission, try use captcha image or question text.
For manual human submission, I agree with !Ask!

 

There are no easy solutions, whatsoever ..

 

This is what I have suggested to David a while back, but he said there were some issues.

I also have an alternative to it, and a backup failsafe on top of that, to help ensure things work properly.

After all, if you really are truely submitting your directory, a few extra steps being taken should not hold any single entity back from a much more secured method and apporach and should be embraced rather than barked at.

 

You could ban IPs submitting the SPAM, and then ahve the submittal process check their ips , eventually, all proxies and spammy ips will be banned and youll be ok

 

Seiya, you will NEVER be able to ban all proxies. Ever! hehehe

It gave me a chuckle though and yes, i noted your smiley. good 1

 

Well im tired of all these threads on the same thing coming up and me telling them all the time the simplest solution, and no one ever listening

 

I say blog about it. Maybe someone might take interest and further your suggestive input on the subject.

Do me a favor, over the course of the weekend, bitch on me via PM about looking into the spam. Seriously. I already had an idiot fall for the bait i setup over at zmoz.com, so I already have about 30 good types of spam submissions to use.

Rob

 

Haha id love to but most likely i wont even be able to use the computer, life is different when you make up with your g/f