PHPLD: Automatically remove spam submissions

18 Nov 2009 In: Code Snippets

Long time and I am back blogging!!

Firstly, I have discovered that the PHPLD captcha can be broken easily and there are numerous bots which are taking benefit of this vulnerability to post spam all around the net. A really good way to prevent automated submissions is to use reCaptcha mod available at http://phpld.frozenminds.com/recaptcha.

This is primarily an extension to this post: Approve all links.
When you use the above code snippet it will automatically approve all links and all of you using PHPLD know that this means a lot of spam submissions which reduce the quality of the directory. It is a Catch 22 situation, either you can manually see and approve hundreds of submissions thus preventing spam or you can use the Approve all links code, save on a lot of precious time but end up approving all spam.

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Hello Everyone!

Here is some material for download for other Jains around the world. Even if you are not a Jain, but understand Hindi, I would highly recommend you to listen to them as they are truly about a way of life.

So here are the links for free download of the material. Read the rest of this entry »

This is something really strange! Google believes that every website will harm my computer. I am not too sure what is happening but I think Google bot is incorrectly labelling every website in its results as “harmful”. This is a measure that Google identifies bad websites containing viruses and trojans. But in this case, Google is labelling itself as being harmful! I think the following screenshots might help clarify my point. Commets welcome!

Please see these:

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