Is a quick hack possible ?

[lewisw]

Hi all,
I'm getting bombraded with online casino subbmissions and sex sites every day EVEN with the image validation so I am sure they are manual submissions.

Can someone tell me how when deleting links I can have an OPTION to now send link rejection e-mail as maybe this way they will stop submitting if they dont realize I reject the entrys all the time ?????

This is getting frustrating...

all the best,
Lewis

[inspireme]

their is always a link rejection email anyway... try it... if you dont get one you have a problem somewhere.

Maybe some javascript form validation that stops a user pressing the submit button in the description, or url contain the word "xxx casino etc"

[inspireme]

try this

http://www.jsmadeeasy.com/javascript...gine/index.htm

but if you do that, then also include a ban on the page in your robots.txt you dont want the search engines finding those words in the javascript as they will for sure think your spam

[lewisw]

Thanks for a super fast solution !!!

try this

http://www.jsmadeeasy.com/javascript...gine/index.htm

but if you do that, then also include a ban on the page in your robots.txt you dont want the search engines finding those words in the javascript as they will for sure think your spam

So this can be tested in the add form html ?
Also how do I "include a ban on the page in your robots.txt "
do you mean to exclude add form.html from spider ?

[esm]

...I'm getting bombraded with online casino subbmissions and sex sites every day EVEN with the image validation so I am sure they are manual submissions....

if you are being "bombraded with online casino subbmissions" then I doubt they are doing it manually. and i suspect the email account is not monitored and all incoming emails deleted immediately.

I read somewhere recently that these attempts using CAPTCHA are just that: attempts. Apparently, they have sophisticated programs that "read" the numbers off the image.

I am using a different method to require human intervenion for my Add/Edit MOD (not the AddLinks/EditLinks MOD). see http://www.indexuhelp.com/indexu51/a...add_select.php.



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[lewisw]

Hi Esm,
I went to the page you indicate and I received a login prompt.
Is this what you mean ?

[lewisw]

I think I get it Esm you have enabled account required for submission .
However and the reason I disabled it prviously if a webmaster does NOT have an account and the login page shows up it should have a link to Not registered ? Click-Here to create your account now.

[esm]

I think I get it Esm you have enabled account required for submission .
However and the reason I disabled it prviously if a webmaster does NOT have an account and the login page shows up it should have a link to Not registered ? Click-Here to create your account now.

Sorry about that. I should have been more specific. enter a URL and go to the next page. The first field is the validation field.

It requires a logical answer. I just need to make it random somehow. Or maybe different logical question each time.



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[inspireme]

I bet they construct searches on google to find submission forms automatically, one of the quickest methods could be to rename add.php to something less obviously a submission form like "anything.php"

esms idea is good, and quite easy to implement without changing the add form have you done this mod?

ps. is that FCK editor? is it easy to implement? I was thinking of allowing sponsored links to use FCKeditor on the modify form...

[lewisw]

I still can;t figure out how to see what you and Esm are referring too .
Okay I feel dense right now.

Esm ,
can you walk me through it as it sounds like yet abnother one of your mods I will purchase.

[inspireme]

its okay it doesnt work on the demo, i just understood what he ment.

basically, you ask a question to the user, such as "what colour is grass" everybody knows the answer so they will physically type green into a box. A computer doesnt know what to do so you can catch out the bot.

When the user submits the form, you check that the box contains the word "green" and if so it submits, if not they return to the add page with "please enter the correct colour for grass"

Thats the basic idea anyway. Personally i would do this on a page before the add screen, so you have a single box asking for the colour of grass and if they enter it correctly then they get to view the add form.

Its called a turing test, and is a lot better for accesibility, people with poor eyesight or dyslexia would find the CAPTCHA codes a lot harder, (although the indexU one is much easier than some)

[esm]

Yep, I think logical questions are good. maybe even record the IP address and prevent more than 1 addition in specified period of time



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[lewisw]

Thanks inspireme ,
I was going crazy trying to figure out where to see this

[lewisw]

I'd love to try it out and be your gunea pig
Can you pm me instructions if Esm does not mind?

Best
Lewis

[inspireme]

http://www.tradesmanguide.co.uk/addselect.php?cat=12

i did a quick one as well, to see how it would work :P

its different from esms. you can type green GrEeN Green with spaces etc but anything else will echo "your a computer".

Ok i lied, it only works for "green" but its not hard to fix im tired and lazy.