Huckleberry Pie Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 After seeing repeat threads from Chinese spambots doing epic fail attempts at advertising their crappy software, I was thinking if it would be possible to block a thread from being posted if it contained a certain keyword, i.e. "Aiseesoft" (the developer behind the offending software), or block a yet-to-be-posted thread if the image URL came from a blacklist, much like when I tried to post a JPEG from Ebaumsworld. I know the spammers can get around this, but judging from the fact that the "How to convert Blu-Ray to blah blah blah" threads are identical in nature and seem to link back to a single source (the images mostly came from a single site), keeping them from posting via a blacklist may curb future attempts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvas. Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Good idea. But maybe instead of banning, deleting that post? Since, that could even get some really helpful non-spam members, posting tutorials banned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Already working on a way to do this, but there's not much more we can do than ban those particular words (without writing new code). We're probably going to leave those in, so that mods can search for those words and find those topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 Well, those imbeciles are still coming in on a semi-daily basis. Dunno if Chris has something on his sleeves just to curb out such junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I have added a few URLs to the blacklist but I'm not sure this will do much to combat the spammers. Besides, there's hundreds of those sites out there, they'll probably just use different domains. With the popularity of sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe et al. always rising, video conversion software is only going to get more popular too since people still own shitty hardware that can't play back widely used standards these days. Not really sure what else we can do at the moment. And as you may have noticed I unfortunately don't have much time for this or any other of my sites right now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted August 22, 2010 Author Share Posted August 22, 2010 (edited) I have added a few URLs to the blacklist but I'm not sure this will do much to combat the spammers. Besides, there's hundreds of those sites out there, they'll probably just use different domains. With the popularity of sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe et al. always rising, video conversion software is only going to get more popular too since people still own shitty hardware that can't play back widely used standards these days. Not really sure what else we can do at the moment. And as you may have noticed I unfortunately don't have much time for this or any other of my sites right now. Will that block images coming from certain URLs? I think most of the spam image URLs come from mac-dvd-ripper-soft dot com. (domain intentionally borked for this post). Edited August 22, 2010 by Huckleberry Pie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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