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Tempest · 02-02-2006, 03:56 PM

You don't HAVE to start charging to weed out the cheaters. Write a really good set of scripts to do some of the following will really help... Make new submitters signup with auto approval. Make sure it uses some sort of image recognition or something to prevent bots from auto signing up. Make sure you check their domains for who they register with and what their name servers are. Also check when and for how long they registered the domain... You could also go further and check what names and emails are used to register the domain. Then have your submit form require the username/pass to submit.. Make it so all new submitters have to hand submit (i.e. use image recognition or something) for some period of time.. guys that are proven over time can use auto submitters.

Now.. As you progress and you begin to ban domains/submitters, you'll build up a database of name servers, registrars, names and emails that you'll find are used for most cheaters... Then you can ban those and those guys won't be able to signup. If you make it harder and harder over time, you become less and less appealing to them to even bother... Then IF things are still bad, you can start to reguire approval of all new submitters and the even start to charge.

If you do it this way, you still make it easy for honest webmasters to get in and start submitting. What you'll also find is that the mass cheaters/gallery spammers go off and get 100 or so domains. Then they use their auto submitters to just blast out the galleries... Once you quickly recognise the name servers etc., you get those banned and you won't be bothered again for a few months usually before they start all over. Also, since a lot register their domains for 1 year only, you can also require that the domain has to have been registered/owned for at least 2 years.

Just a thought.

PS. Do you REALLY think sites like thehun review ALL the galleries submitted to them?? You can "auto delete" submissions using the type of software I've outlined and the submitters/cheaters would never even know it.

02-02-2006, 03:56 PM
Tempest Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: West Coast, Canada. Posts: 10,217	You don't HAVE to start charging to weed out the cheaters. Write a really good set of scripts to do some of the following will really help... Make new submitters signup with auto approval. Make sure it uses some sort of image recognition or something to prevent bots from auto signing up. Make sure you check their domains for who they register with and what their name servers are. Also check when and for how long they registered the domain... You could also go further and check what names and emails are used to register the domain. Then have your submit form require the username/pass to submit.. Make it so all new submitters have to hand submit (i.e. use image recognition or something) for some period of time.. guys that are proven over time can use auto submitters. Now.. As you progress and you begin to ban domains/submitters, you'll build up a database of name servers, registrars, names and emails that you'll find are used for most cheaters... Then you can ban those and those guys won't be able to signup. If you make it harder and harder over time, you become less and less appealing to them to even bother... Then IF things are still bad, you can start to reguire approval of all new submitters and the even start to charge. If you do it this way, you still make it easy for honest webmasters to get in and start submitting. What you'll also find is that the mass cheaters/gallery spammers go off and get 100 or so domains. Then they use their auto submitters to just blast out the galleries... Once you quickly recognise the name servers etc., you get those banned and you won't be bothered again for a few months usually before they start all over. Also, since a lot register their domains for 1 year only, you can also require that the domain has to have been registered/owned for at least 2 years. Just a thought. PS. Do you REALLY think sites like thehun review ALL the galleries submitted to them?? You can "auto delete" submissions using the type of software I've outlined and the submitters/cheaters would never even know it.