TGP Submission Validator

[chodadog]

I'm after something to validate TGP submissions.

Preferably, it can do all of the following:

Check for particular items of code, and decline the gallery if it's present. A seperate message for each reason... eg, if the page has a popup, it'd say no popups allowed. blah blah.

Decline sites containing certain words in the gallery description, or gallery url.

Also, an optional link confirmation email.

That's all. Can anybody let me know where to get something like this.

[mike503]

if there's a way to check it there's a way around it. you can't put an automated process around something, human intervention is really the only way.

you can do checks but they're not guaranteed to either reject all that have the bad stuff or they'll flag normal stuff that might be commented out or misunderstood by the script.

[chodadog]

I doubt many people will bother trying to get around it. And if they do, it'll be obvious once i go through the manual reviews. It's just that i'd like to cut down on the amount of shit that gets submitted. I reckon i could clear out about half the submissions with some simple detection stuff.

Anyone else?

[ServerGenius]

I use tgbush from www.germesia.com that pretty much does
the trick....you can filter on javascript functions, objects, iframes, ilayers or whatever you would specify yourself. It does this
during submission so the bad ones don´t even make it to the
review queue and a spider script that will check every 20 minutes
all galleries.

It also looks if content is changed, servers and galleries are up,
amount of content, filesize, etc, etc. Sure there´s ways around
it but it isn´t worth trying it. Besides that once I see it I´ll just
add a new filter.

The software is not cheap but to my opinion worth every cent
I paid for it.....USD 2500 tgbush is brownie but can be used
as 1 admin for multiple TGP´s and the TGP´s can run on different
servers in different locations all controlled by 1 admin interface.

It also keeps reports of everything going on...You´ll be suprised
what happens without you knowin it if you check these logs.

DynaMite

[chodadog]

Cheers, but a tad out of my price range. hehe.

Anybody else?

[snarfs]

Or you can simply add a few lines into your perl code, such as:

use LWP::Simple;
$html = get("http://bla.com/members/xxx/autosubmit/01.html");

if ("$html" =~ /UNWANTED SHIT/) {
print(" go fuck yourself ");
$ABORT=1;
} else {
print("have a nice day\n");
&add_listing;
}



To expand on this, just place your unwanted functions in a text file, one per line. Read in the file and compare each line with what is in the html.

thats what i do on http://snotbot.com

[mike503]

automated solutions will *never* replace human interaction for this. it's a moot point. these scripts you spend a shitload of money on will only save you three steps in validating a gallery.

you'll still need to check it for decent design, number of thumbs, etc. no automated script can easily detect the difference between a banner ad or other image vs. a thumb.

the only thing you can do is to take a "snapshot" of the html as it is when you approve it using a human, and then have a script compare that snapshot at random intervals. if the source html doesn't change, either will the quality. if it does, kill it or put it back on the pending/"need approval" list.