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[eifu]

Hi Everyone

I have a little problem. Someone has been spamming my site with comments for some time now. Firstly they added links, now that I have forbidden the usage of html in the comments, they are just putting urls to the comments box. Automatically, most likely. Sometimes within one day I get 50 comments. It looks all the comments are from the same person (all the urls you can find from the comments area, are basically pointing to the same "search engine").

See the comments area (after the article) of the page here:
http://www.thecheers.org/article_853.html

Similar problem exists also with other articles, though I'm not sure whether the spammer is the same.
http://www.thecheers.org/article_983.html

So I would have two questions to you.
Firstly, excluding the image verification, is there anything I could do to disallow the automatic submission of SPAM? (this question is mainly to people who know anything about php as well)

Secondly, is there a an easy way to do something with this guy/these guys?

Thanks
Siim

[grungee]

If you have a banned/bad word file use that to put any http:// word or the domain.com he is using then it should just display ****

[eifu]

thanks. actually I had something like that, but the script was checking for http://www instead of http://, have fixed it now. So one prob fixed. But some article still gets posts with words shemale, etc. A week ago I noticed that one article about 9-year-old soccer prodigy has gotten lots of traffic...with very different non-related keywords (that had been added to the comments area). I could disallow them, but...as you can understand, there's really thousands of combinations that can be used and they can't be all forbidden. Eg. I can't disallow keyword 'teen'...even though lots of spam comes to the site related to this keyword.

So if there was a way to just forbid automatic submission, it would be perfect...I think.

[WebSavvy]

You could add turning code to the form. Turning code is a series of random numbers that must be entered into a field for authenticate prior to allowing someone to post (submit) anything.

It's a bit of work to add it but it's worth it.

I have turning code on all of the add URL forms in my directory, also. It's helped to cut down on a lot of the automated submissions that previously, we used to get.

[g1smd]

Turning?

Do you mean "Turing"?

[WebSavvy]

yep ... it's what I meant ... not feeling well today -- so, anything goes.

[g1smd]

Get well soon!

[WebSavvy]

Thanks. :) It's just a small sinus thing with a low grade fever. Just enough to make your head pound and your body feel blah.

[eifu]

thanks for the answers. will have to see now how and when I can make the change :)

And savvy1, I hope you're better now :)